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OBAMA TELLS MILITARY: BE PREPARED FOR WAR IN KOREA Gus Lubin (Business Insider) Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:13:17 AM

Obama released a statement this morning showing full support for South Korea's retaliation plan for the destruction of the Cheonan. Technically, we're now one illegal ship movement by North Korea away from nuclear war. From the White House: President Obama fully supports President Lee in his handling of the ROKS Cheonan incident and the objective investigation that followed. The measures that the government of the Republic of Korea announced today are called for and entirely appropriate. The Republic of Korea can continue to count on the full support of the United States, as President Obama has made clear. Specifically, we endorse President Lee’s demand that North Korea immediately

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apologize and punish those responsible for the attack, and, most importantly, stop its belligerent and threatening behavior. U.S. support for South Korea’s defense is unequivocal, and the President has directed his military commanders to coordinate closely with their Republic of Korea counterparts to ensure readiness and to deter future aggression. We will build on an already strong foundation of excellent cooperation between our militaries and explore further enhancements to our joint posture on the Peninsula as part of our ongoing dialogue. As President Lee stated in his address earlier today, the Republic of Korea intends to bring this issue to the United Nations Security Council. We support this move. Secretary Clinton and Ambassador Rice are each consulting very closely with their Korean counterparts,

with the Republic of Korea and other allies and partners to reduce the threat that North Korea poses to regional stability. Secretary Clinton is currently in Beijing and she will travel to Seoul for discussions with President Lee and his senior advisors on May 26 before reporting back to the President on her consultations in the region. Secretary Gates is in close contact with ROK Defense Minister Kim and will meet with him and other counterparts at the June 4-6 Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. President Obama and President Lee agreed to as well as with Japan, China, government agencies to review meet in Canada at the time of and other UN Security Council their existing authorities and the G-20 Summit. member states in order to reach policies related to the DPRK. Join the conversation about this agreement on the steps in the This review is aimed at ensuring story » Council. that we have adequate measures In response to the pattern of in place and to identify areas North Korean provocation and where adjustments would be defiance of international law, appropriate. the President has directed U.S. The U.S. will continue to work

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Finally! Google Reveals The Split On AdSense (GOOG) Jeff Jarvis (Business Insider)

sharing the revenue shares for our two main AdSense products — AdSense for content and At last, Google is revealing its AdSense for search. . . . split on AdSense: 68% to AdSense for content publishers, publishers for content ads, 51% who make up the vast majority for search ads. of our AdSense publishers, earn I had two primary complaints a 68% revenue share worldwide. about Google in my otherwise This means we pay 68% of the admittedly and obviously wet- revenue that we collect from kiss book, What Would Google advertisers for AdSense for Do?: Google’s policy aiding content ads that appear on your government censorship in China sites. The remaining portion that and its opacity on advertising we keep reflects Google’s costs relationships. The first is pretty for our continued investment in much fixed and this morning, AdSense — including the Google is addressing teh second. d e v e l o p m e n t o f n e w so is the second. (Uh-oh, now I technologies, products and have fewer excuses not to be a features that help maximize the fanboy.) earnings you generate from At a press meeting with Google these ads. It also reflects the execs in Davos in January, I costs we incur in building p r e s s e d t h e m a b o u t t h e products and features that advertising openness, having enable our AdWords advertisers d i s c u s s e d t h e i s s u e w i t h to serve ads on our AdSense publishers at DLD in Munich partner sites. Since launching right before. In Davos, Google’s AdSense for content in 2003, president of global sales, Nikesh this revenue share has never Arora, replied that the company changed. w a s r e c o n s i d e r i n g i t s We pay our AdSense for search transparency on AdSense. This partners a 51% revenue share, morning, they’re revealing the worldwide, for the search ads deal in a blog post (to which I’ll t h a t a p p e a r t h r o u g h t h e i r link as soon as it’s up; this news i m p l e m e n t a t i o n s . A s w i t h was embargoed for 10a ET). A d S e n s e f o r c o n t e n t , t h e From the post: Today, in the proportion of revenue that we spirit of greater transparency k e e p r e f l e c t s o u r c o s t s , with AdSense publishers, we’re i n c l u d i n g t h e s i g n i f i c a n t Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:18:57 AM

revenue shares for AdSense for content and AdSense for search right in the AdSense interface. They’re also not revealing splits for YouTube, a program that just started. Note also that big publishers, such as the New York Times Company, have long known — and negotiated — their splits, which also aren’t revealed. A Google spokesman told me last night that these splits hold for classic AdSense pay-per-click ads and also for newer display, CPM ads. They also hold globally. How do the splits compare? It’s not uncommon for ad networks to take 50% or more. BlogAds, e x p e n s e , r e s e a r c h a n d them. Revenue shares for these one of the more generous d e v e l o p m e n t i n v o l v e d i n products can vary from product networks, customarily takes building and enhancing our core to product since our costs in 30% on sales it makes and has s e a r c h a n d A d W o r d s building and maintaining these other models (if sales come technologies. The AdSense for products can vary significantly. through a publisher site, only s e a r c h r e v e n u e s h a r e h a s Additionally, the revenue shares 14%; they also offer networked remained the same since 2005, for AdSense for content and sales). when we increased it. AdSense for search also can Join the conversation about this We also offer additional vary for major online publishers story » AdSense products including w i t h w h o m w e n e g o t i a t e See Also: A d S e n s e f o r m o b i l e individual contracts. • OMG Is Google Stock A Buy! applications, AdSense for feeds, Of course, we can’t guarantee -- Citi's Mahaney and AdSense for games. We that the revenue share will never • While Google Fights On The aren’t disclosing the revenue change (our costs may change Edges, Amazon Is Attacking shares for these products at this significantly, for example), but Their Core time because they’re quickly we don’t have any current plans • Google's HUGE Acquisition e v o l v i n g , a n d w e ’ r e s t i l l to do so for any AdSense Spree Continues! l e a r n i n g a b o u t t h e c o s t s product. Over the next few associated with supporting months we’ll begin showing the

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Options Update: iShares MSCI Germany Volatility Near One Year Highs Paul Foster (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 5/24/2010 8:50:00 AM

Filed under: Options iShares MSCI Germany ( EWG) closed at $19.24. The DAX 30 is recently down 0.64% according to Bloomberg. EWG overall option implied of 50 is above its 26-week average of 29 according to Track Data, suggesting larger price movement. NASDAQ 100 ( QQQQ) overall implied volatility at 33; 26-week average is 24. BBC report in 2009, not much chief of Search Engine Lane is Russell 2000 ( IWM) overall had changed in five years. aware of. "In Internet dog years, implied volatility at 38; 26-week Currently, however, the firm, that's like 60-70 years. Perhaps average is 25. which puts great faith in team the culture was even more Options Clearing Corp total bonding sessions that can youngish back then--it doesn't equity put/call ratio on May 24 was 1.24. consist of roller-blade hockey mean it's the case now." games, and snowboarding, will The outcome of the case, Update is by Stock Specialist F o s t e r o f not reveal the average age of its h o w e v e r , w i l l n o t s e e a n P a u l t h e f l y o n t h e w a l l . c o m workers. immediate payoff of the tens of Options Update: iShares MSCI Its spat with Reid, however, millions of dollars in lost stock seems to be the only ageism suit options that Reid is claiming. Germany Volatility Near One Google has faced in its 12-year- The state's Supreme Court is Year Highs originally appeared history. A spokesman for the using it the case to clarify just on BloggingStocks on Mon, 24 company pooh-poohed the gist how pertinent "stray remarks" M a y 2 0 1 0 0 8 : 5 0 : 0 0 E S T . of Reid's argument, saying, a r e t o t h e o u t c o m e o f Please see our terms for use of "there are plenty of older people employment lawsuits, meaning feeds. Permalink| Email this| at Google who do very well and that Reid will have up to 90 Comments do fit." days to discover whether he can Implied volatility- BusinessOption- Investing- IShares The fact that this case has taken take his lawsuit any further. six years to get to court is somewhat ridiculous--something that Danny Sullivan, editor-in-

California Supreme Court to Hear Former Employee's Ageism Case Against Google Addy Dugdale (Fast Company)

defense consists of a collection of "stray remarks" that are not worthy of a trial. Reid, on the Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:41:55 AM other hand, has the thumbs-up The California Supreme Court from a San Jose appeals court has been called into a dispute that says he'd collected enough between Google and a 54-year- evidence for "a fact finder to old engineer in an ageism row. conclude Google engaged in age Brian Reid was employed at the discrimination." search engine giant in the Logic states that a company summer of 2002 but, within two whose logo is made up primarily years was deemed "an old man," of primary colors, and whose "sluggish," and "slow" by offices worldwide resemble colleagues. He was fired for playgrounds for kidults, should being a poor "cultural fit." Reid, only be interested in hiring the who had worked on Apollo 17, young, as opposed to the middle as well as building one of the -aged. When Reid was working first ever search engines at at the firm, only 30 of its 1,900 AltaVista, will finally have his employees were over 40. In case heard on Wednesday in San 2004, the average age for male Francisco. employees was 29.7 years, and Google claims that Reid's females 28.4 and, according to a

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AT&T Hikes Smartphone Early Termination Fees by $150 Dan Nosowitz (Fast Company)

14%. It also doesn't differentiate between the vastly different price points of smartphones Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:49:17 AM available. Early termination fees aren't by Let's not lose sight of the fact themselves unfair. Cellphones, that Verizon's ETF is $350-especially smartphones, are AT&T's just keeping up here. heavily subsidized, a fact which But given AT&T's less-thanis frustratingly not very well stellar reputation and the fact known; many people really do that Apple's iPhone is no longer think their iPhones are anywhere near the only hot ridiculously cheap, at $200, smartphone in town ( HTC Evo when in fact a 32GB iPhone nearly doubling theirs, taking it 4G on Sprint, Nexus One on T3GS actually costs $700--in that from $175 to $325. AT&T's Mobile, and HTC Incredible on case, AT&T just charges a bit explanation is pretty laughable-- Verizon), customers aren't likely extra, month by month, until the at the same time as they jack up to be too pleased with the $500 advance is paid off. Since the smartphone ETF, they're change. the wireless carrier is drastically very, very slightly lowering the The change goes into effect on cutting the entry price of a dumbphone ETF, from $175 to June 1st, and will affect any new cellphone in exchange for a $150. That $325 will decrease contracts and upgraded existing multi-year contract, it's only fair by $10 per month, instead of the contracts. that they charge a bit of cash for usual $5, until the two-year Dan Nosowitz, the author of c o n t r a c t i s u p . T h e i d e a , this post, can be followed on those who want to ditch. But for whatever reason (likely foolhardy and unfair as it is, is Twitter, corresponded with via greed rather than need--these that a costlier phone deserves a email, and stalked in San c o m p a n i e s a r e n ' t h u r t i n g costlier ETF, and a cheaper Francisco (no link for that one-f i n a n c i a l l y ) , s o m e o f t h e phone deserves a cheaper ETF. you'll have to do the legwork wireless carriers have decided to Of course, that doesn't explain yourself). bump the early termination fee, why the smartphone ETF nearly or ETF. Verizon doubled theirs doubled and the dumbphone last year, and now AT&T is ETF was lowered by a crummy

Morning Edition: Zuckerberg's mea culpa (CNET News.com) Submitted at 5/24/2010 8:40:41 AM

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Clash Of The Cultures At Man Group: GLG Is The Long Haired Hippy To Man's Buttoned-Up Brit Courtney Comstock (Business Insider) Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:04:43 AM

The Man Group will keep the recently acquired GLG Partners an arm's length away at their former offices in Mayfair. It's part of the deal that was written for the purchase, but Reuters' look at the different cultures at the two hedge funds unfolds another story. At Man, Peter Clarke runs the show. He's sharp, pulled together and buttoned up. At GLG, three seemingly more chill co-CEOs are in charge. The first is long-haired Pierre Lagrange, who in part funded the new independent superhero movie, Kick-Ass. The second is Manny Roman, and the third is Noam Gottesman. (Gottesman and Lagrange have been at GLG since the beginning. They met co-founder Jonathan Green, who also founded the fund with them, at Goldman Sachs. Their three initials created the name, GLG.) In a way, says the Reuters article, the joining of the two firms is an experiment in the war between man and machine.

GLG is the machine because their strategies rely heavily on a 'black box' trading system called AHL. Man's personality driven culture is apparent in their investment strategies, the handwritten notes they send clients rather than emails (even though they use one of those special notepads), and kind of in the way they openly share information (in chat rooms). It should be an interesting merger. The photos of the fund managers alone tell a story. Especially this old one of Lagrange. Now check out another war between man and machine: day traders and floor traders vs HFT traders --> Join the conversation about this story Âť

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Obama Mandates Government to Develop National Efficiency and Emissions Standards for Cars and Trucks Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company)

2012 through 2016, and now Obama is ordering federal agencies to work on developing Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:36:40 AM standards for cars and light President Obama is taking the trucks made in 2017 and for long view in raising fuel medium and heavy trucks e c o n o m y a n d e m i s s i o n s manufactured in model years standards for the nation's 2014 through 2018. And that's vehicles. Last month, the U.S. not all--the President also Government developed strict ordered the Department of standards for cars and light Energy to increase its support of trucks made in model years advanced vehicles (i.e. electric

vehicles) and mandated the Environmental Protection Agency to cut down on nongreenhouse-gas pollutants from cars and trucks. In a speech in the Rose Garden, Obama proclaimed, "I believe that it's possible in the next 20 years for vehicles to use half the fuel and produce half the pollution that they do today." It's a goal that will require

automakers to ramp up fuel efficiency efforts, and fast. No word yet on what the government's new standards for cars and trucks will entail, but they will be more strict than those announced in April (see our earlier post on the announcement for details). So while the future of a comprehensive climate bill is still in doubt, at least one sector

of the U.S. economy will be forced to clean up its act. And in addition to cutting down on CO2 emissions, the regulations will slash oil use dramatically-according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, cutting down on the average fuel economy of medium and heavy trucks by just 3.7 miles per OBAMA page 6

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Zappos Loses $1.6 Million in SixHour Pricing Screw-Up

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g a l l o n w i l l c u t U . S . o i l on Twitter or by e-mail. consumption by 11 billion gallons each year by 2030. Dan Nosowitz (Fast thank you all for being such Check out Obama's speech Company) great customers. We hope you below. continue to Shop. Save. Smile. [youtube ZUgQWMq1QDE] Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:18:16 AM Ariel Schwartz can be reached at 6pm.com. This past Friday, between So our heartfelt sympathies to 10,000 pieces of midnight and 6 a.m. PST, 6pm and especially to the poor information are 6pm.com, a Zappos sister site, guy who screwed up what's exchanged per second on accidentally made the biggest huge loss in revenue, the site probably the one line of code pricing error in the company's isn't taking their mistake out on that led to the whole mess. But Facebook, says history. All items in the store the customers who profited: our congratulations to anyone Facebook investor Yuri were capped at a maximum While we’re sure this was a who came away with a haul of Milner at TC price of $49.95--a huge mistake, great deal for customers, it was cheap goodies. inadvertent, and we took a big since 6pm.com carries luxury conferenc... Dan Nosowitz, the author of items that can reach into the loss (over $1.6 million - ouch) this post, can be followed on Here's Why €530 (Business Insider) selling so many items so far Twitter, corresponded with via thousands of dollars. Million Is Just The Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:10:50 AM Though obviously 6pm.com under cost. However, it was our email, and stalked in San didn't advertise the "sale," mistake. We will be honoring Francisco (no link for that one-- Beginning Of The 10,000 pieces of information bargain-hunter sites picked up all purchases that took place on you'll have to do the legwork Spanish Banking Bailout are exchanged per second on on the error and publicized the 6pm.com during our mess up. yourself). Gregory White (Business Facebook, says Facebook vulnerable vendor, leading 6pm We apologize to anyone that Insider) investor Yuri Milner at TC to lose "over $1.6 million" in was confused and/or frustrated Spain's bailout regional HERE'Sofpage 6 bank conference. That's up 10X from Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:20:30 AM those six hours. But despite the during out little hiccup and CajaSur could get much worse 1,000 per second a year ago. Join the conversation about this story »

DreamWorks Animation Bombs with 'Shrek' Steven Mallas (BloggingStocks)

Box Office Mojo, Shrek Forever After grossed $71 million at domestic theaters over the threeSubmitted at 5/24/2010 9:50:00 AM day weekend. Why is this so Filed under: Walt Disney bad? It was number one, after (DIS), Film, DreamWorks all. Animation (DWA) Jeffrey To begin with, big tent-pole K a t z e n b e r g , C E O o f pictures are in trouble if they D r e a m W o r k s A n i m a t i o n ( don't score over $100 million in DWA), must be feeling just their debut spots. It's simply the awful. The new Shrek bombed. way it is. Beyond that, you have There's no way to spin the to check out what the first Shrek statistic (although I can't wait to made back in 2001 during its see how the company tries). o p e n i n g : t h a t f l i c k According to early estimates at captured$42.3 million. You

mean to tell me the fourth in the series couldn't make at least double what the original did? If it had to bomb, it could have bombed a little less severely, don't you think?

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as the company has much more bad debt on its books than €530 million. According to Expansion.com, the amount of bad debt on the books of CajaSur, that being debts which are unlikely to be paid back to the bank, could eventually rise to€2.7 billion. Many of these problem loans are HERE'S page 7

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Euro's Sudden Drop Triggers Market SellOff

Goldman Sachs Reassesses Financials

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Filed under: International Markets, Commodities, Currency It's another blue Monday. A sudden drop in the euro triggered a selloff in European and U.S. futures markets. The June euro traded at $1.23980, down 0.0189, as of 7:20 a.m. EDT. Investors recognize that the eurozone crisis is not going away. Over the weekend, the Spanish government took control of CajaSur, a leading savings bank. Spanish unions said they might call a general strike to protest against government wage cuts. The FTSE 100 in London fell 1% and the FTSE euro 300 declined 0.4%. In Asia, markets

fared a bit better with the Shanghai Composite rising 3.5%. Continue reading Euro's Sudden Drop Triggers Market Sell-Off Euro's Sudden Drop Triggers Market Sell-Off originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 24 May 2010 09:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments Government- Asia- LondonUnited States- FTSE 100 Index

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Filed under: Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Financial Crisis Goldman Sachs ( GS) analysts stated Monday that the recent market volatility is causing them to"reassess" their coverage on the financial sector. According to MarketWatch, the brokerage house said: "The recent spike in volatility makes us more optimistic about capital markets activity like trading, but we are more cautious about the longer-term capital deployment theme, such as M&A, private equity, corporate loan growth and equity-fund lows." The list of moves is quite extensive, but one of the companies feeling the

ire of Goldman is Janus Capital Group ( JNS), which was cut to sell from neutral. Continue reading Goldman Sachs Reassesses Financials Goldman Sachs Reassesses Financials originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 24 May 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments Goldman Sachs- Financial services- Janus Capital GroupInvesting- Business

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associated with real estate projects gone wrong, as Spain's real estate boom left many developers with assets they could not sell. Right now, according to the bank ING via FT Alphaville, prices have only fallen on Spanish real estate by 10%. That

may only be 20% of how far prices have to fall to make sense, according to ING, and even a doubling of provisions would see Spanish banks lose 23% of overall capital. Now analysts across Europe are cutting their targets for Spanish banks, assuming that the

problems of CajaSur are not the exception, but the norm. This could be just the beginning of the process where the national government of Spain takes on the debt of its banking system, leaving it even more indebted than it already is. Worried about Spain? See the

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Infographic of the Day: The 140 Most Influential People on Twitter Cliff Kuang (Fast Company) Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:40:35 AM

When did they start? And what did they first say? Their annual Web Trends map made Information Architects Internet famous, but this year, they've ditched the formula in favor of illustrating one single trend: Twitter. Their Cosmic 140 is a maps the 140 most influential people on Twitter--as measured by followers--and lists their handle, subject matter, follower count, and tweet frequency. There's even the date of their first tweet and what they first said: And here's some tiny sections of the poster: Just like the Web Trends Map, the poster is for sale, for just $99 (a good deal, given that the poster is A0--that is, 33"x47"). You can preorder now, and also download a PDF to see all the details.

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ACLJ Takes Up Case of 7th Grader Suspended for Wearing Rosary (The Christian Post RSS Feed | Society)

when they go to school,” Sekulow added. “We're representing the family in this Submitted at 5/23/2010 10:55:13 PM case and will pursue all legal The American Center for Law avenues to ensure that the rights and Justice (ACLJ) is of Raymond Hosier are representing a 13-year-old p r o t e c t e d . " student from New York who While Hosier, who turned 13, received a two-day suspension said wearing the rosary brings for wearing a rosary to school. him comfort and honors the The Christian legal group memory of his deceased older announced its role in the case of brother and uncle, a school Raymond Hosier on Friday – administrator at Oneida said the two days after the teen was rosary was in violation of the suspended from Oneida Middle district's blanket policy on School in Schenectady, N.Y., beads, which has been in place for refusing to take the beads off for a few years now due to the or tuck them in his shirt. connection that some beads "The action taken by the school have to gangs. district - suspending the student "Beads are one method that for wearing a religious artifact - gangs use to identify each is insulting and inappropriate,” other," Superintendent Eric Ely said Jay Sekulow, chief counsel explained to a local NBC news o f t h e A C L J , i n F r i d a y ’ s affiliate. announcement. "We certainly understand any “The Supreme Court has been y o u n g s t e r ' s d e s i r e t o very clear that students do not commemorate something, but surrender their constitutional we also understand our need to rights to religious expression maintain a safe environment,"

he added. ACLJ’s Sekulow, in response, called the school district's comparison of a rosary to a gang symbol "not only wrong, but deeply offensive." “One thing is very clear - this school district will get a lesson in the First Amendment,” he added. Based in Washington, the ACLJ focuses on constitutional law and “is specifically dedicated to the ideal that religious freedom and freedom of speech are inalienable, Godgiven rights. “ The legal group’s stated purpose is to educate, promulgate, conciliate, and where necessary, litigate, to ensure that those rights are protected under the law. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Robin Wauters (TechCrunch) Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:28:13 AM

TweetUp, the Twitter-focused search and advertising startup that was incubated by idealab– the original Overture founders – is launching today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City. Serial entrepreneur Bill Gross took the stage for the event’s first ‘for show launch’ and publicly debuted TweetUp’s core service – the startup had earlier opened the gates for potential advertisers only. TweetUp’s destination site ranks Twitter search results by time and via an algorithm to determine if a result should go higher than other more recent tweets containing the keyword queried. Users will also see targeted (paid) advertiser results within that stream. Gross explained that advertisers paying for ranking for specific keywords will also tend to be good results, since bad ads will John Doerr through to all the be bid out of the system. Startup Battlefield launches, TweetUp’s business model is we'll have live and archived based on a 50/50 revenue share video. So stick around and system, which is compelling for watch. And if your boss asks new advertisers on a budget you what you are doing, say that level for one thing. all day, for the next three days. it is market research. Starting with Charlie Rose and

Watch TC Disrupt Live Right Here Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch)

TweetUp Launches “AdSense For Twitter” Product At #TCDisrupt TweetUp offers any publisher widgets and other contextual layers filled with relevant live tweets based on given keywords – you can see an example in the TechCrunch.com right sidebar. Added benefit: analytics. Advertisers can use the TweetUp system to track in which Twitter clients their advertisements appear, the number of impressions, aggregate of followers reached, and more. The elephant in the room is of course that Twitter is experimenting with an ad platform of its own– not to mention other bidders such as Ad.ly and Twad.ly– and if TweetUp is going to be able to compete with that. Time will tell, but Gross’ pedigree and some of the (at least for now) unique features of TweetUp might make a bigger impact than you would think at first glance. CrunchBase Information Tweetup Bill Gross Information provided by CrunchBase

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BP hopes for oil well "kill" success (Reuters: Top News)

options to try to contain or seal the leak as soon as they can. Seeking to rate the chance of VENICE, Louisiana(Reuters) - success of the "top kill" option BP Plc's planned attempt this on a scale of 1-10, Suttles said: week to shut off its blown Gulf "It's not a 10, it's not that of Mexico well has a 60-70 certain, but it's above a 5 -- a 6 percent chance of success, a BP or a 7". executive said on Monday, as Members of Obama's Cabinet efforts to reduce the gushing oil were to visit the fouled Gulf leak faltered. Coast on Monday. The U.S.| Politics| Green Business| administration warned BP on Gulf Oil Spill Sunday it would be removed "We need it to work," BP Chief from efforts to seal the well if it Operating Officer Doug Suttles was not seen as doing enough. told CNN, referring to a so- But officials acknowledged only called "top kill" operation -- the the company and the oil industry injection of heavy fluids and have the know-how to stop what then cement into the seabed well threatens to become the worst to block oil flow. U.S. oil spill. The London-based energy BP shares fell around 3 percent giant, which has now lost about in London on Monday, as 25 percent of its market value -- investors reacted to the Obama almost $50 billion -- since the a d m i n i s t r a t i o n ' s r e n e w e d five-week-old spill began, has pressure on the company to stop scheduled the attempted fix for the leak. Wednesday. "Really what everyone's waiting BP is facing intense and for is the top kill operation growing pressure from the U.S. which should be coming up in government to solve what the next couple of days, President Barack Obama has ... That really is the key: c a l l e d a n u n p r e c e d e n t e d whether they can actually kill environmental disaster for the off this well," Panmure Gordon United States caused by the analyst Peter Hitchens said. slick. A broker said investors were With heavy oil already clogging increasingly concerned that BP's fragile marshlands and wildlife future in the U.S., where 40 refuges in Louisiana, soiling percent of its assets are located, birds and turtles, BP engineers was at risk. are racing to line up technical ALSO POSSIBLE: "TOP Submitted at 5/24/2010 8:08:59 AM

HAT" AND "JUNK SHOT" BP executives have warned there is "no certainty" that the containment efforts will work because they have not been attempted ever before at the depths -- a mile down -- where the Macondo well is located. They involve undersea robots working in the dark and under intense depth pressure. A previous control measure attempted by BP -- a long tube deployed down to the larger of two leaks from the well -appeared to have had relatively little impact on the flow. BP said the oil collected by the siphon tube was at times as low as 1,360 barrels of oil (57,120 gallons/216,200 liters) per day in the six days before May 23. On average, BP said, the oil captured during that period was 2,010 barrels per day. Last week the company said it had been siphoning as much as 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons /795,000 liters) per day. The company had estimated that about 5,000 barrels have been leaking every day, although some scientists have given much higher numbers for the size of the leak -- up to 70,000 and even 100,000 barrels per day. BP said the spill, which has seen oil flowing into the sea since after an April 20 rig

explosion sank the Deepwater Horizon rig, killing 11 workers, had cost it $760 million so far, up from the $625 million estimate it reported on May 18. Suttles said that if the "top kill" operation did not work then the company would attempt to put a "top hat" containment device over the larger leak to try to capture most of the oil and pipe it up to a tanker on the surface. Another option on the table was a "junk shot" - the injection of golf balls, pieces of rubber tire and other debris into the well's failed blowout preventer to try to shut it. MARRED MARSHLANDS Oil has been sloshing into Louisiana's fragile marshlands, and over 65 miles of shoreline have been tarred. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, accompanied by a U.S. Senate delegation, were to visit the state on Monday and fly over the affected areas. Salazar said on Sunday that Washington was frustrated and angry that BP has missed "deadline after deadline" in its efforts to seal the well more than a month after an oil rig explosion triggered the disaster. "If we find they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing, we'll push them out of

the way appropriately," he said after visiting BP's U.S. headquarters in Houston. The spill has raised questions about Obama's earlier proposal to expand offshore drilling as part of a strategy to win Republican support for climate change legislation. Analysts say ecological and economic damage from the spill could become a political liability before November congressional elections. Many scientists have warned the spreading oil could increasingly be caught in a powerful ocean current that could take it to the Florida Keys, Cuba and the U.S. East Coast. Obama on Saturday blamed the mess on "a breakdown of responsibility" at BP and its partners in the well drilling. (Additional reporting by Sarah Young in London, Susan Heavey in Washington; Pascal Fletcher in Miami, Tom Bergin in Houston; Writing by Pascal Fletcher and Ed Stoddard; Editing by Paul Simao) Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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China has avoided taking sides in the issue. Analysts say it is fearful of destabilizing the grip SEOUL/BEIJING(Reuters) - of North Korean leader Kim South Korea on Monday Jong-il, who is looking announced steps to tighten the increasingly frail as he tries to vice on the North's already secure the position of his s t u m b l i n g e c o n o m y i n youngest son as successor to the punishment for sinking one of family dynasty that has ruled the its navy ships, with both sides state for more than 60 years. stepping up their war-like The vitriolic comments across rhetoric. the heavily defended Cold War World| Politics border are rattling investors and The United States, which backs niggling at diplomatic relations Seoul, warned that the situation in the economically powerful was "highly precarious. region. China, the North's only major Few analysts believe either ally, urged calm. Korea would dare go to war. The mounting tension follows The North's military is no match l a s t w e e k ' s r e p o r t b y for the technically superior international investigators South Korean and U.S. forces. a c c u s i n g t h e N o r t h o f And for the South, conflict torpedoing the Cheonan corvette would put investors to flight. in March, killing 46 sailors in "I solemnly urge the authorities one of the deadliest clashes of North Korea ... to apologize between the two since the 1950- immediately to the Republic of 53 Korean War. Korea (South Korea) and the The United States, which has international community," South 28,000 troops on the peninsula, Korean President Lee Myungthrew its full support behind bak said in a nationally televised South Korea and said it was address. w o r k i n g h a r d t o s t o p t h e Lee said he would take the s i t u a t i o n f r o m e s c a l a t i n g . issue to the U.N. Security With U.S. Secretary of State Council, whose past sanctions Hillary Clinton in Beijing, are already sapping what little Washington pressed China to energy North Korea's economy rein in the hermit state. has left. Submitted at 5/24/2010 6:34:59 AM

His government also banned all trade, investment and visits with North Korea and stopped its commercial shipping using a cheaper route through its waters. WHITE HOUSE BACKING The White House called South Korea's measures to punish the North entirely appropriate and told Pyongyang to stop its "belligerent and threatening behavior" as tensions on the peninsula escalated to their highest in years. But Clinton avoided answering a question on whether Washington would support additional U.N. sanctions against North Korea. China is very unlikely to support more U.N. sanctions. Japan's prime minister instructed his cabinet to consider what form of sanctions could be taken against North Korea over the sinking. An angry North Korea threatened to fire at equipment the South said it would put up to broadcast anti-Pyongyang messages and was ready to take stronger measures if the South escalated tension. It also issued a statement repeating its position that it had the right to expand its nuclear deterrent.

"North Korea's goal is to instigate division and conflict," said Lee, speaking from the country's war memorial in the capital Seoul. "It is now time for the North Korean regime to change." In what may alarm Pyongyang as much as anything, its wealthy neighbor said it plans to reduce the number of workers in a joint factory park just inside the North which has long been an important source of income for the North Korean leadership. FOCUS ON CHINA Much of the diplomatic focus will be on China, the only major power to support North Korea and which earlier this month -to the annoyance of the South -hosted a rare overseas visit by the North's sickly looking leader Kim Jong-il. Analysts say China's leaders are terrified that if North Korea's government collapses, it will send chaos across into its territory and, perhaps more worrying, lead to U.S. troops moving up the peninsula right to its border. A South Korean government report said the North's foreign sanctions-hit trade fell 10 percent last year and could fall further this year, forcing it to

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depend even more on China to prop up its economy. Lee said the South reserved the right to defend itself if Pyongyang wages aggression. The North said much the same to its neighbor last week when it denied involvement in the sinking. Local financial markets took some relief from Lee's comments which steered clear of any suggestion of military retaliation. "South, North tension is certainly not positive, but given historical trends, losses that markets suffer over this will be brief, unless a drastic situation takes hold. By drastic, I mean war. I do not think war is likely though," said Kwak Joong-bo, a market analyst at Hana Daetoo Securities. (Additional reporting by Jungyoun Park and Yoo Choonsik in Seoul, Jeff Mason in Washington; Writing by Jonathan Thatcher; Editing by Jeremy Laurence) Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Iran says its higher enrichment is to produce fuel for the reactor at the center of the swap deal. VIENNA(Reuters) - Iran The proposal to swap lowoutlined to the U.N. nuclear enriched uranium (LEU) for fuel watchdog on Monday a deal to to run an Iranian medical give up some of its enriched research reactor, aimed at u r a n i u m , c a l l i n g i t m a j o r allaying fears Iran is trying to p r o g r e s s t o w a r d d e f u s i n g amass fissile material for international tensions over its nuclear weapons, was agreed atomic aspirations. last week by Tehran with World| Politics Turkey and Brazil. But Western powers see the A letter signed by Iranian deal, reflecting one Iran backed nuclear program chief Ali Akbar out of six months ago, as Salehi was handed over to overtaken by events including International Atomic Energy e s c a l a t i n g e n r i c h m e n t b y Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Tehran. Along with Russia and Amano at a 45-minute meeting China, they have drafted broader in Vienna. sanctions against the Islamic " T h e d i r e c t o r g e n e r a l i s state. conveying the letter to the Tehran has threatened to ditch United States, France and the plan if it is hit with a fourth Russia for their consideration," U.N. sanctions resolution, the IAEA said in a statement. envisaged for adoption next Russia, France and the United month. States are parties to the original Some diplomats say prospects fuel swap pact brokered by for the deal look bleak unless Amano's predecessor Mohamed Iran stops enriching uranium to ElBaradei last October but higher levels, a process it started which stumbled on subsequent in February stoking Western Iranian demands for sweeping fears it ultimately aims to amendments. produce bomb-grade material. As in October, Iran has agreed Submitted at 5/24/2010 7:58:42 AM

to transfer 1,200 kg (2,646 lb) of LEU -- enough for an atom bomb if enriched to high purity - abroad in return for special fuel rods to replenish the stocks of its medical isotope reactor. Iran's Arabic-language al-Alam state television quoted Salehi's letter as saying the deal was "a major step forward" toward defusing tensions over its nuclear energy program. Iran's semi-official Fars news agency said the letter "will be the beginning of more detailed negotiations on the fuel swap through the signing of a written agreement." TURKEY AS MIDDLEMAN IN FUEL SWAP Under the deal Iran's LEU would be kept in a third country -- Turkey -- under IAEA supervision, still officially Iranian property, until Tehran received the fuel rods. Previously the LEU was to be sent to Russia and France for processing, with the fuel rods provided to Iran around a year later. World powers voiced doubt about the value of the new offer

since 1,200 kg no longer represents the bulk of a stockpile that has grown significantly since then. That means Iran could still be left with enough for a nuclear warhead. Iran has also started refining uranium to a higher level. "They say the higher enrichment is to make fuel for the reactor. Why would they continue to do this if they get the fuel?" a Western diplomat said. "If they carry on like this then I would be very surprised if this fuel deal goes anywhere." Iran's envoy to the IAEA, in remarks unlikely to defuse Western suspicions, made clear the fuel swap would not restrict escalating uranium enrichment in Iran in any way. "This is not the issue," Ali Asghar Soltanieh told Reuters. "We expect (this offer) to be realized as soon as possible," he said in a message to France, Russia and the United States. Turkey and Brazil -- both currently non-permanent members of the Security Council -- and Iran have urged a

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halt to talk of further sanctions because of the deal. But Western powers see it as an Iranian stalling tactic to derail more biting sanctions. The new, extended sanctions would target Iranian banks and call for inspection of vessels suspected of carrying cargo related to Iran's nuclear or missile programs. Iran has been under sanctions since 2006 over its refusal to suspend enrichment -technology that can produce fuel for electricity or for atomic bombs -- and open up entirely to IAEA inspections and investigations. (Additional reporting by Robin Pomeroy in Tehran; Writing by Mark Heinrich; Editing by Dominic Evans) Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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BEIJING(Reuters) - China struck a conciliatory note in talks with the United States on Monday by vowing to spur domestic demand and keeping a guarded opening to exchange rate reform, which the Obama administration says is needed to rebalance the global economy. Politics| China The United States treaded softly on the subject and welcomed Beijing's long-standing pledge to reform the yuan as the two sides opened their second Strategic and Economic Dialogue. But both countries also made clear that a stronger Chinese currency was not enough by itself to narrow the whopping U.S. bilateral trade deficit that has fueled tensions between them at a time when the global economic recovery remains fragile. While Chinese President Hu Jintao broke no new ground on the yuan dispute, he set an amicable tone for the two days of talks during which the world's biggest and third-biggest economies will seek to steady their relations. "China will continue to steadily advance reform of the renminbi

exchange rate formation mechanism following the principles of being independent, controllable and gradual," he said. The renminbi is another name for the yuan. Hu said his government wanted to expand domestic demand to create more balanced growth, something that Washington -worried about its yawning trade deficit with China -- has also advocated. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the Chinese government was moving in the right direction on the yuan, which has been effectively pegged to the dollar since the global financial crisis worsened in mid-2008. "We welcome the fact that China's leaders have recognized that reform of the exchange rate is an important part of their broader reform agenda," he said. Trying to press the case that appreciation would be in China's own interest, Geithner said that a more market-driven exchange rate would help suppress inflation while also driving private firms to move up the value chain. TRADE POLICIES China and the United States signaled that there could be progress on two other traderelated policies that have been

additional irritants in their relations. China said that it was working to resolve the concerns of foreign companies about an "indigenous innovation" program that the United States has said was unduly restrictive and a concern on par with the yuan. And Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming said he was optimistic that the United States would loosen controls over high-tech exports, a move that would go a small way to balancing their trade ties. The talks also touched on Europe's debt woes, with both sides saying that they were cautiously optimistic that any fallout would be limited. "The general view was that the pace of the global economic recovery will be basically maintained," People's Bank of Governor Zhou Xiaochuan told a news conference. The one slight point of open discord were U.S. calls for a tougher line against North Korea over an alleged sinking of a South Korean warship, contrasting with China's appeals for restraint. Tensions flared between Beijing and Washington in the first months of 2010, when China denounced U.S. criticism

of its Internet censorship, Washington's arms sales to Taiwan, and President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled leader. Beijing considers Taiwan a part of its territory, and Hu said on Monday that it was important for countries to respect one another's sovereignty. Beijing officials have said they want only "quiet discussion" of U.S. complaints that the Chinese currency is held too low in value, giving Chinese manufacturers an unfair advantage. The Obama administration so far appears willing to go along in the hope that a quieter approach will give Beijing more political space to let its currency appreciate. The annual U.S. trade deficit with China fell to $226.8 billion in 2009 from a record $268.0 billion in 2008. But the Obama administration is keen to lift exports, and the deficit remains a point of friction with Beijing. (Additional reporting by Arshad Mohammed and Doug Palmer; Editing by Ken Wills) Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Lancet medical journal in 1998. Announcing the final verdicts, Surendra Kumar, chair of the Submitted at 5/24/2010 5:29:35 AM GMC’s fitness to practise Andrew Wakefield, the doctor panel, said that Dr Wakefield who triggered the MMR vaccine h a d b e e n “ i r r e s p o n s i b l e ” , scare, has been struck off the “misleading” and “dishonest”, medical register. in the way in which he carried After nearly three years of out and presented the study, formal investigation by the which involved carrying out General Medical Council unnecessary and invasive tests (GMC), Dr Wakefield has been on children without official f o u n d g u i l t y o f s e r i o u s permission. professional misconduct over “ T h e p a n e l i s p r o f o u n d l y “ u n e t h i c a l ” r e s e a r c h t h a t concerned that Dr Wakefield sparked unfounded fears that the r e p e a t e d l y b r e a c h e d vaccine was linked to bowel fundamental principles of disease and autism. reseach medicine,” Dr Kumar Parents were today advised that told the hearing in central it was “never too late” to give London. “It concluded that his their children the triple vaccine actions in this area alone were to protect against measles, sufficient to amount to serious mumps and rubella, as the case professional misconduct.” drew to a close. Dr Wakefield, 53, also “showed T h e d e c i s i o n m a r k s t h e a callous disregard” for the culmination of the longest suffering of children by taking medical misconduct hearing in blood samples from them at his the GMC’s 150-year history, son’s birthday party, and failed which has been going on since to declare a conflict of interest July 2007. — that he had received £50,000 A fitness to practise panel has to carry out research on behalf already found Dr Wakefield and of parents who suspected that two other doctors guilty of a MMR could lead to autism. series of charges over the way Dr Wakefield’s former they conducted research on 12 colleague, John Walker-Smith, children, published in The 73, was also found guilty of

serious professional misconduct and struck off the medical register for his role in carrying out procedures on the children. Another doctor, Simon Murch, was not found not guilty, despite having previously been found to not have ethical approvals for the study. The panel said that the decision to strike off Dr Wakefield was the “only sanction that is appropriate to protect patients and is in the wider public interest, including the maintanence of public trust and confidence in the [medical] profession.” The doctors, formerly employed at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, North London, sparked the biggest health scare in a generation when they published claims linking the vaccine, recommended to all infants at 13 months, to a new type of bowel disease, and also linked it to the development of autism. The fallout from the study — including Prime Minister Tony Blair’s refusal to say whether his infant son had been vaccinated — caused hundreds of thousands of parents to boycott the jab. Immunisation

rates fell, leading to a resurgence of potentially deadly measles cases in recent years. The Lancet, which had withdrawn contested parts of the paper in 2004, subsequently retracted the article in full. The GMC looked only at how the doctors’ acted during the research, not whether the findings were right or wrong — although they have been roundly rejected by medical experts and multiple large-scale studies. Dr Kumar, who led a panel of three doctors and two lay members which sat and deliberated on the case for a total of 217 days, said that Dr Wakefield showed a continued lack of insight as to his misconduct. Dr Wakefield, who moved to America in 2001, did not attend today’s hearing. He has previously said that the GMC’s case against him is “unjust and unfounded”. He now has 28 days to appeal against the verdict at the High Court. In a statement today he said: “Efforts to discredit and silence me through the GMC process have provided a screen to shield the Government from exposure

on the MMR vaccine scandal.” But the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said that the false suggestion of a link between autism and the MMR vaccine had done “untold damage to the UK vaccination programme”. “We cannot stress too strongly that all children and young peopel should have the MMR vaccine. Overwhelming scientific evidence shows that it is safe,” it said. A Department of Health spokesperson added: “The GMC has given its conclusions on Dr Wakefield’s fitness to practice. The safety of MMR has been endorsed through numerous studies in many countries. Thankfully, more parents are having their children vaccinated with MMR and they see it as being as safe as other childhood vaccines.” Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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forged 12 British passports, and has refused to allow the official to be replaced until Israel signs Submitted at 5/24/2010 1:09:47 AM a written guarantee that it will Australia has ordered the not do so again. It was the first expulsion of an Israeli diplomat time Britain had expelled an over cloned passports used in Israeli diplomat in more than 20 the assassination of a Hamas years. agent in Dubai in January. Israel has so far refused to Following Britain’s example comply, worried that any such u n d e r t h e r e c e n t L a b o u r document could be taken as government, Stephen Smith, the p r o o f t h a t i t o r d e r e d t h e Australian foreign minister, said a s s a s s i n a t i o n . that after a police investigation The Labour government briefed into the high-profile affair, his the opposition on the reasons government would throw out an why it had taken the move, and Israeli diplomat. it is believed likely that the new “Investigations and advice have L i b e r a l - C o n s e r v a t i v e left the Government in no doubt government, despite being more Israel was responsible for the sympathetic to Israel, will abuse and counterfeiting of follow its policy. these passports,” Mr Smith Israel did not take any tit-for-tat said. retaliation after that expulsion, “The high quality of these confirming in the view of many counterfeited passports points to analysts that its Mossad spy the involvement of a state agency had indeed carried out intelligence service”. the hit on Mr Mabhouh, a senior The killers of Hamas official member of Hamas’ military Mahmoud al-Mabhouh used wing who was believed to be in forged British, Australian, charge of smuggling weapons French, German and Irish from Iran to Gaza, which is passports to gain access to their under blockade from both Israel target in a Dubai hotel on and Egypt. January 20. Israel has stressed that there is Britain has already expelled the no proof to connect it to the M o s s a d r e p r e s e n t a t i v e i n killing, and David Miliband, London after its own police then the British foreign minister, inquiry indicated that Israel had said he was expelling an Israeli

official because of the forgery, rather than the assassination. However, the new diplomatic rebuke will further isolate Israel at a time when its international standing is already in decline, owing to very public spats with the United States, its one-time close ally Turkey, and those other countries whose passports it forged. Mr Smith said that it was not the first time Israel had forged Australian travel documents. He did not elaborate on previous incidents, but said the latest transgression breached “confidential undertakings” between the two countries. “These are not the actions of a friend,” he said. “This is not what we expect from a nation with whom we have had such a close, friendly and supportive relationship.” He said the government had asked that a member of Israel’s Australian embassy in Canberra be withdrawn within a week. It is the first time since 2004 that Australia has expelled a foreign diplomat. Mr Smith said he had informed William Hague, the new British Foreign Secretary, as well as counterparts in the US and the UAE of his decision before making a statement to the

Australian Parliament earlier today. The governments of Ireland, Germany and France have yet to state how they will react to similar cases of alleged identity fraud against its citizens, as revealed in the investigation. The 27 suspects in the killing used the identities of 12 people from Britain, as well as people from France, Germany and Ireland along with the four Australian identities, to travel to Dubai and kill Mr Mabhouh, whose death was initially taken to be from natural causes. Dubai police and Hamas later surmised he had been killed, probably by suffocating or an induced heart attack, prompting Dubai’s effective Special Branch to examine extensive CCTV footage from the airport to the hotel, showing closely how Mabhouh was followed by people wearing a number of disguises, including two of his killers dressed as though they were returning from a tennis match. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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becoming involved in this. We’ve broadened our training and selection but it will take Submitted at 5/24/2010 2:30:21 AM some time before these The officer in charge of the measures can come into play. Army’s bomb disposal teams And what it does mean is, it has resigned after voicing means the existing cohort are concern over the pressure his going to be under pressure.” unit faces on the frontline and He continued: “I certainly think s t r e s s i n g t h e n e e d f o r we could do with more high reinforcements. threat teams and IED operators Colonel Bob Seddon, speaking in Afghanistan”. in a TV documentary made by Colonel Seddon also said that the wife of one of his bomb he was very concerned about the disposal experts who was killed long-term psychological impact last year in Afghanistan, said on soldiers of the pressure of that the Army was trying to d e a l i n g r e p e a t e d l y w i t h train more people to destroy the potentially fatal incidents. buried explosives that litter “We’re about to kick off a more southern Afghanistan but it detailed study looking at the would take time. psychological impact of these The programme details how the operations because we have a Ministry of Defenc (MoD) duty of care. We owe it to these s u s p e n d e d b o m b s q u a d people to do the best we can.” recruitment in 2002 for 18 The Ministry of Defence last months, resulting in a severe night confirmed that the officer shortage of operatives. had quit as principal “I am very concerned as their ammunition technical officer of head of trade at the pressures the Royal Logistics Corps and t h a t t h e y a r e f a c i n g i n would be leaving the Armed Afghanistan,” the officer said. Forces altogether in January. “We are seeking now to bring “He remains a serving officer people back into high threat IED and will not be commenting. [improvised explosive device] The Army remains committed operations that have been out to the counter IED effort which for some time. We are looking is the number one priority in at more senior officers Afghanistan,” an MoD

spokesman said. In the documentary by the BBC’s Panorama, Christina Schmid, the widow of Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid, questioned for the first time whether the Army had failed in its duty of care towards her husband. She said he was “flaking” with exhaustion on the day he died because of demands being made on him and his elite team due to staff shortages. Staff Sergeant Schmid, known as Oz, was killed by an IED the day before he was due to return home for a two-week break last October. It was his third callout of the day and he had defused 64 devices during the tour of duty. Mrs Schmid said he told her that he was drained, leading her to believe that extreme fatigue may have played a part in his death. Reading from his letters and recalling his phone calls home, Mrs Schmid said: “He basically said it was absolutely relentless — that they weren’t getting a break at all and that the amount of IEDs that he was doing, that he was asked to do, was just overwhelming. He was flaking at that point, saying, ‘I do need a break from this. I

need to step back because I need to recharge’ and I don’t feel that he necessarily had that time.” Staff Sergeant Schmid, 30, and his team worked in temperatures of up to 50C (122F), so often they did not wear their cumbersome protective suits. On the day he died his team were trapped in an alleyway after finding a wire attached to a bomb. Staff Sergeant Schmid followed it to the explosives and died while trying to deactivate the device. Mrs Schmid has been widely praised for the dignity that she has shown in her grief. Responding to the programme Liam Fox, the Defence Secretary, said: “I will make sure that everything possible is done to ensure that our Forces have what they need to deal with this indiscriminate threat.” A Very British Hero is on BBC One at 8.30 tonight. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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exchanges between the two Koreas and imposing a total ban on North Korean ships Submitted at 5/24/2010 12:25:40 AM passing through South Korean President Barack Obama today waters. said he “fully supports” the His government banned all South Korean president and his trade, investment and visits with response to the torpedo attack North Korea. South Korea also by North Korea that killed 46 plans to reduce the number of South Korean sailors as the workers in a joint factory park cross-border animosity between just inside the North which has the two countries continues to long been an important source rise. of income for the North Korean South Korea’s President Lee leadership. M y u n g - b a k e a r l i e r t o d a y The White House said Seoul demanded that North Korea can continue to count on the full “immediately apologise and backing of Washington. punish those responsible for the “US support for South Korea’s attack, and, most importantly, defence is unequivocal, and the s t o p i t s b e l l i g e r e n t a n d president has directed his threatening behaviour” and m i l i t a r y c o m m a n d e r s t o announced it will take the case coordinate closely with their of the torpedoed Cheonan Republic of Korea counterparts warship to the United Nations to ensure readiness and to deter Security Council. future aggression,” the White In a move which analysts House said overnight. described as “cautiously hard- Meanwhile in Beijing the US line”, Mr Lee also said he Secretary of State Hillary w o u l d b e s u s p e n d i n g a l l Clinton said that the sinking of

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rise, or if Facebook will rule them all. Doerr isn’t sure. He thinks there could be a Today’s the opening day our of federation, or that Facebook TechCrunch Disrupt conference, could be the one. and we’re starting it off with a That said, he does consider b a n g . F a m e d Facebook to be one of the “four interviewer/journalist/host horsemen” of the Internet right Charlie Rose is talking to John now. According to him, those Doerr, partner at venture capital a r e : F a c e b o o k , G o o g l e , firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Amazon, Apple — yes, all Byers. Doerr is known for his Kleiner Perkins investments. m a s s i v e l y s u c c e s s f u l Branching off from Facebook, investments in companies such Zynga, another Kleiner Perkins as Google, Amazon, Intuit, and i n v e s t m e n t , i s t h e f a s t e s t more recently Zynga (among growing investment that Kleiner many others). has ever made, Doerr says. He Rose asked Doerr for his believes they’ve nailed the thoughts about what’s coming mixture of social with a business next. Doerr says that’s we’re on model. It isn’t just about t h e t h i r d g r e a t w a v e o f advertising, it’s about virtual innovation. The first was the goods. And they’ve used it for microchip/PC in the 80s. The good too – to raise millions for second was the Internet in the Haiti. 90s. And now we’re entering a Rose asked Doerr what worries wave of social, mobile, and new him the most right now. Doerr is commerce, Doerr says. worried about energy. And what’s leading that wave? Specifically, he’s worried that The iPad. he U.S. if falling too far behind Doerr (who invested in Apple) in energy technology. We may clearly loves this device. He had dominate the web, but other one on stage with him and kept countries dominate the future of picking it up over and over energy right now, and we’re again throughout the Internet. going to be buying our future He says it will change the way from them unless this changes, we interact with everyday things he reasons. such as television. And it will Below find my live notes of charge health care. But maybe the conversation (paraphrased): most importantly, it will change Charlie Rose: I come to this education, he says. area as a laymen. But I’ve talked Rose also asked Doerr about to a lot of people in the space. Facebook. He asked if there will R e c e n t l y M a r k P i n c u s o f be other social networks that Z y n g a . S t e v e J o b s d i d a Submitted at 5/24/2010 8:23:08 AM

forward. Steve Jobs told you “this is the best work of my life.” Why does he think that? JD: It’s not a computer. You don’t need files. You don’t need mice. It’s magic, what you see is what you touch. I don’t want to call it a computer. It’s a magical surface. CR: Go ahead take 10 years forward. Steve Jobs told you “this is the best work of my life.” Why does he think that? JD: It’s not a computer. You don’t need files. You don’t need mice. It’s magic, what you see is what you touch. I don’t want to call it a computer. It’s a magical surface. program with me a while ago, it’s places, it’s relationships. It’s JD: I found I can take it to concerts. And church. (laughs) even before he was Steve Jobs. exciting. John Doerr and I got to know CR: What will influence its CR: You own Apple stock. JD: Regrettably (laughing). We each other in the 90s. Now velocity. raise $100 million iFund 14 we’re friends. JD: One key thing is apps. companies from 5,000 that Where are we in the revolution? Steve Jobs has transformed a p p l i e d . T his year those What comes next? everything. It’s turning this ventures will do $100 million in John Doerr: Great question. I world upside down. revenues. 80 million minutes a think we’re on the verge of a CR: In the first hour with the day in those applications. In 14 third great wave of innovation. iPhone and app, you were in months we ran out of money. So The first was the microchip and right? You knew. we went back to the piggy bank the PC in the early 80s. The JD: I did. These smartphones second wave was 1995: the change everything. They’re to get another $100 million. Internet. Marc Andresseen always connected, always on. CR: What’s with Steve an brought Netscape Navigator to It’s a powerful new platform. 85 Adobe? the world. Then Amazon came. m i l l i o n i P h o n e s a n d i P o d JD: He has a note on his site Then in 1999 we saw the 15th touches – we’re there. And now about it? Flash is buggy and search engine called “Google.” we have the iPad. It took just 28 power problems. The iPad runs This third wave is social, days to sell a million of them. for 10 hours. mobile, new commercse. We It’s not a big iPod. It’s a new CR: Is battery improvement don’t have a name for it yet. We paradigm. Imagine 10 years coming? JD: No, it’s coming really could be on the verge of forward. JOHN page 23 reinventing the web. It’s people, CR: Go ahead take 10 years

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DST’s Yuri Milner: Facebook Is Going To Be The Social Graph That Unifies All Civilization Jason Kincaid (TechCrunch)

Backstaging I looked at ACM championship (Olympics for programmers). Russia got six If you hadn’t heard of Russian out of ten top places in the last I n t e r n e t h o l d i n g c o m p a n y decade. Digital Sky Technologies one Rose: When you put together year ago, you probably weren’t the company. You wanted to alone. But last May — almost create a company, DST , that exactly one year ago — DST w o u l d i n v e s t i n I n t e r n e t took the tech industry by storm Companies, what is the model? with a$200 million investment H o w d o e s i t d i f f e r f r o m in Facebook. It followed that up t r a d i t i o n a l V C f i r m s ? with a huge investment in Milner: 10 years ago it was no Zynga, one in Groupon(and different. In the last few years, it another in Facebook). Today at evolved toward late stage TechCrunch Disrupt, renowned investment. This is valuation of interviewer Charlie Rose is a r o u n d a b i l l i o n , a v g . sitting down with DST co- investment of something like founder and CEO Yuri Milner to $100 million. t a l k a b o u t F a c e b o o k ’ s Rose; In other words, you want dominance, social gaming, and to see an established business. more. And you make this investment Rose: You were on your way to looking for, a payout from an becoming a physicists, then you IPO? ended up at Wharton, then the Milner: Yes. Either IPO or World Bank. Where did you acquisition. I think the kind of think your life was heading. investments we’re doing in the Milner: Back to Russia. last 12 months are helping Rose: You put together the comkpanies to delay IPO. Get company in 99? What was the another 1, 2 years to run to idea? focus on the product. Milner: Internet was becoming Rose:Why Facebook? big everywhere in the world. Milner: It was the most Russia is the place I thought it fascinating company we had would thrive. There are only 4 e v e r m e t . W e ’ v e m a d e countries in the world other than investments in 5 social networks US: China, Russia, Japan, South before Facebook. We though we Korea. There were a couple of knew a few things about social exceptions. In Russa, the main networks. Facebook was a reason is engineering talent. logical step. Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:09:18 AM

Rose: Backstage you told me about an article in the NYT that spoke to you when we think about why social networking has become such a phenomenon. Milner: Story was that human civ. started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population conc. was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people. Facilitate exchange of information never seen in hisotry of civilization. 10,000 pieces of information exchanged every day. In one year Facebook grew 3x. Three fold increase in information sharing per person.

domestic players right now. Rose: If Facebook is not dominant, where will it be? Milner: THere are certain places in the world where the answer is out there whether FB will dominante — the four countries I already mentioned. Other places where there will be a tough battle. Rose: What did you get out of the John Doerr Interview? Milner: I agree that this will really change the way… When my wife bought the iPad her pattern of using the internet changed dramatically. She’s using it 10x more than before because it so useful and convenient. Rose: You think FB will be one Rose:Some people look at the of most valuable companies on iPad, there will be competitors. the internet. what would prevent Does having the early start.. it from doing that. does that mean that this has not Milner: I think FB is important only the adstart but likelihood of globally because it’s going to be gaining majority share? one social graph that is unifying Milner: I think so. I think the all civiziaiton, maybe with a few p a c e o f c h a n g e i s r e a l l y exceptions. The company that accelerating. You can become creates one global social graph very big very fast. will be very important going Milner: I have this ration that if forward. It will be Facebook, you divide age of entepreneur with maybe 2-3 local social by market cap of company. For n e t w o r k s a b l e t o s u s t a i n Facebook it’s one. Every year of competition long term. his life Zuckerberg has been Rose: You believe in Russia making $1 billion for investors. they’ll skip email and go right to Rose: What advice to you give social networks. to people like Mark Pincus? Milner: Russia is one of the places where sig. presence of DST’S page 27 social networks are driven by

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slowly. There are some disruptive things, but it’s coming slow. CR: What else does the iPad need to make it better? JD: There’s the obvious things like a camera. It will be 5 times as fast, a terabyte of storage. And that’s just a few years from now. It won’t have a phone in it. CR: What does Mark Pincus and others like Zuckerberg have in common with some of the greats? JD: They were nerds. They had no social life whatsoever. They have a love affair with their companies. They were missionaries not mercenaries. CR: Bill Gates was more Rockafeller then Edison. JD: They’re passionate about product. It’s the most important thing. CR: Talk about Kleiner Perkins. Some investments are successful, some are not. Talk about Zynga. JD: We invested in Zynga 20 months ago, and it’s the fastest growing venture we’ve ever had. The people there are extraordinary. They can monetize these new social networks. Advertising is one

part, but it’s more than that. 2% will pay for virtual goods. They also raised $3.6 million for Haiti in just a few days. It’s powerful stuff. In any day there are 30 million people playing Farmville — that’s more than watch 60 minutes. CR: So what can you do with that? JD: A lot. There’s not branded place on the Internet right now to have fun. It’s about life. They become a habit that connects you. CR: Is the core of the third wave the convergence of social and mobile? JD: That’s at the core, but it’s changes in consumer behavior. New commerce is included. Mark Pincus’ wife Ally has a company called One King’s Land, there they find limited sale — you better get it now. It’s an idea. CR: Social networking is an old idea, that Facebook brought into the future. Will there be one? JD: That’s an interesting question. I don’t know. There may be one, or there may be a federation. CR: What does your history tell

you? JD: It tells us that one of the key to all of this is network effects. When you have 500 million people and you square that — it’s a huge number. CR: Will there be more? JD: I don’t know. Let’s see. CR: Let’s talk about media. What about Google TV? JD: It’s the best version of what it is that I’ve seen. For the last time we’ve watched the Super Bowl with out the Internet in your lap or on the screen. The Internet are finally coming together. CR: Let’s talk about China. JD: They now have more Internet users than we do. They’ve been ahead in user pay. But Google is leaving the mainland, the state is soverign. The leading players are Chinese companies. It’s a tough market for Western Companies. CR: What does that mean for Google? JD: (pauses) Google takes a very principled point of view. You can’t buy position in their network, for example. For a state to not let things be ranked automatically didn’t work. They stepped away from the largest

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market. Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook are the Four Horsemen of the Internet. Each of those have huge market and can innovate. CR: What’s disruptive looking down the pipe? JD: I haven’t talked about new immersive relationship between you and the medium. Again, I’m not talking about computers. It’s like the iPad. This is a fluid experience. New ways of interacting, things from Apple, Cooliris, there are others. These will improve. We’ll look back at these devices today as if it’s the stone age. I’m excited about what the iPad can do with healthcare. The government is spending $20 billion on this. We need this information in the cloud. Every doctor and nurse needs an iPad. CR: But someone has to teach the doctors how to do this, right? They’re too busy. JD: Sure. Another thing is education. This tablet will transform education. CR: But the potential in schools hasn’t taken place yet, right? But this will do it? JD: That’s correct.

CR: Russia wants to create a Silicon Valley — so does China. JD: I talked to one of the Russian guys behind this. He said it’s not going to work — because it’s hard. CR: What excites you about the future — where are we missing something? What worries you? JD: My worry isn’t about innovation in tech — the iPad is transforming things. But I worry about energy. We continue to spend too much money overseas, and we’re hurting the environment. The U.S. was the leader in the Internet. But in new energy tech, 4 of the top 30 in new green tech re in the U.S. It’s like if Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook were all outside the U.S. Only Amazon would be American. We have to get in this game. Or we’ll be buying our energy from the world. That worries me. That’s a wrap. CrunchBase Information Charlie Rose John Doerr Information provided by CrunchBase

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Facebook Addresses Privacy Issues: New Settings Coming but No Rollbacks Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)

a more social web: "If people share more, the world will become more open and F a c e b o o k C E O M a r k connected," writes Zuckberberg Zuckerberg penned a public in the article. "And a world statement about Facebook that's more open and connected privacy issues and what's being is a better world." New Privacy done by way of an article Settings Coming published in today's Washington Taking a big picture view of the Post. In the brief, carefully issue at hand, an "open and crafted mea culpa, Zuckerberg connected" world may indeed be addresses the ongoing privacy a better one. But in the harsh backlash the site is now facing: light of everyday reality, the "we just missed the mark," he situation isn't as rosy. As social says, referring to the overly media researcher danah boyd complex, granular privacy (yes, that's how she spells it) settings and controls that offer notes in a recent blog post, toggles for everything from "Zuckerberg doesn't know how search engine visibility to to resolve the positive (and in whether or not your photo his head inevitable) outcomes of albums can be seen by your transparency with the possible boss. challenges of surveillance." Sponsor Taking it to the extreme, she W h a t w a s n ' t a d d r e s s e d , points to an example of the however, was why the need for dangerous outcomes: " When a clearer, easier-to-use privacy father in Saudi Arabia caught settings became such an urgent his daughter interacting with matter in the first place. And men on Facebook, he killed that is Facebook's steamroller her." (The example was pulled approach to forcing people into from the upcoming book, " The public sharing, a corporate Facebook Effect," by David philosophy that seems less about Kirkpatrick, the "inside story" impact to the bottom line and about Facebook's creation.) m o r e a b o u t f u l f i l l i n g But you don't have to go that Zuckerberg's personal vision for far to see the potential dangers Submitted at 5/24/2010 10:14:25 AM

of an over-sharing user base who thinks they're penning short missives that will only be read by a closed group of friends. For example: these people are talking about doing the drug "salvia," these people prefer smoking pot, these women are cheating on their husband(or are being cheated on by him), these people hate their boss, these people just came out of the closet, these people hate gays, these people are either joking or serious about being an alcoholic, these people are taking an HIV test, and so on. (Click through on those links and you'll find full names and photos to accompany each status update. We won't publish specific examples here, however). Outside of a handful of exhibitionists, the people cited above likely believe what they're sharing is private. They are mistaken. And what will easier privacy settings do for these people, these, the unconcerned mainstream masses that are the

bulk of Facebook's 400+ million active users? The answer is nothing because they don't even know their privacy is being violated to begin with. They don't know the "recommended settings" Facebook prompted users to accept starting late last year made everything of consequence public from status updates to photos. They don't know that their "likes" are now public. They don't know that their thoughts are indexed by new, public-facing search engines like OpenBook, OneRiot and Booshaka. And they won't care until something bad happens. Bad, as in "losing one's job, losing one's health insurance, losing one's parental rights, losing one's relationships, etc." writes boyd, offering more down-to-earth suggestions of potential damages. Missing the Point: Damage has been Done To those who don't follow the privacy issues on Facebook closely, the Zuckerberg letter appears to address the issue well enough - easier privacy tools are coming? Great!- but that misses the point.

What's more important is what's not being said. Reading between the lines, it's clear that Facebook is not rolling back any of its previous changes. It's not resetting people's profile to "private," it's not switching off the "instant personalization" feature, it's not changing to an opt-in model. And while Facebook won't confirm that this is the case, (n the record, that is), it's obvious to anyone who's clued in to Facebook's overall agenda what's going on here: Zuckerberg will have his way. He will see his vision realized. At at the end of day, the net effect of all this "openness" may, in fact, be a better world. But getting there will be hard, and people's lives may be damaged in the process. Do those affected have only themselves to blame for putting online thoughts that should have remained in their heads? Perhaps. But Facebook once told its users it was a safe place to share these things...and sadly, many people believed that was true. Discuss

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Pandigital's new $200 Novel color e-reader is powered by Android and Barnes & Noble (CNET News.com) Submitted at 5/24/2010 7:00:00 AM

If you know Pandigital, you probably know it for its photo frames. But now the company is moving into the hot e-reader market with a device that a lot of people have been waiting for: an affordable color screen ereader that also has ties to a major bookseller. Integrated with the Barnes & Noble eBookstore, Pandigital Novel is an Android-powered ereader that has a full color touch -screen 7-inch display, Wi-Fi connectivity, and multimedia capabilities. It will retail for $199.99 when it ships in June. While we're a little surprised to see Barnes & Noble partnering with Pandigital, as anybody who's played around with the iPad knows, it's not a big leap from digital photo frame to ereader, and the Novel's press shots look a lot like the rumored smaller version of the iPad that some sites and analysts have been alluding to. That said, the Novel, with its 800 x 600 resolution, isn't as sharp as the iPad's display and the touchscreen interface, while responsive, isn't as responsive the iPad's. The Novel, which is powered by an Arm 11 processor, measures 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches

(HWD) and weighs 16 ounces. There's 1GB of built-in memory, as well as an expansion slot for SD/MMC memory cards (cards up to 32GB are supported). Pandigital rates the Novel's battery life at six hours in reading mode; that's not terrible, but it's nowhere

near the iPad's battery life (and dedicated E-ink-based e-readers like the Kindle don't have to be recharged for days or even weeks). Novel approach: Pandigital's ereader looks a little like a mini iPad.(Credit: Pandigital) While it offers multimedia

features (audio, video, images) as well as a built-in Web browser, email, calender, and alarm, Pandigital is billing it first and foremost as an ereader. It says that Novel owners will have "easy access to Barnes & Noble's expansive eBookstore catalog of more than

one million eBooks, newspapers and magazines, a wide variety of free eBooks and more than half a million free classics." They'll also be able to use Barnes & Noble LendMe feature that allows users to share certain e-books with friends and family for 14 days (but currently you can only lend a book out once). Here are the key specs: • Operating system: Android (ARM 11 processor) • 7-inch touch-screen TFT color display (800x600 resolution) • Weight: 16 ounces • Integrated Barnes & Noble eBookstore • WiFi enabled • 1 GB internal memory with SD/MMC slot (up to 32GB cards supported) • Automatically adjusts between portrait and landscape mode when the device is tilted • eBook formats supported included PDF, EPUB, and HTML • Adjustable font sizes, built-in dictionary, highlights and notes • Built-in Web browser, email, alarm clock, and clalendar • Plays back music (MP3), displays images and certain video file formats • Built-in mini-USB port for transferring files from computer PANDIGITAL'S page 30

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Sensor & RFID Apps of the Future, Part 2: Buildings & Environment Richard MacManus (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 5/24/2010 5:49:41 AM

In Part 1 of this series on mobile applications of the future, we looked at apps for food and supply chains, retail, and social networking. In Part 2, we check out ideas and early prototypes for mobile apps that literally interact with the world around you: buildings, objects and the environment. The ideas in this post come from a session at the recent ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit that I convened. Thanks to the participants! Sponsor As noted in Part 1, sensors and RFID tags are small computer chips that connect real-world objects to the Internet. Increasingly data from these chips is being accessed and processed using mobile phones, which means a world of new opportunity for start-ups and developers. Buildings & Objects RFID data could make building mapping automated and much more accurate. It could identify

the location of gas lines, the temperature at various locations, how to optimize air flow in a data center, and more. Likewise, in your home you could have sensors deployed everywhere. For example, in your windows to notify you of any damage. The ground itself can be monitored using sensors. HP Labs has a seismic sensing solution that is currently deployed by Shell. It integrates with Shell's oil and gas exploration systems to sense, collect and store geophysical data. Parking could be a consumer friendly application for sensor data - telling you where are the parking spaces, in real-time. Tire pressure monitoring and exhaust monitoring could tie into carbon footprints. But who will pay? Government mandates may be required before this happens. Many libraries are already using RFID, to enable you to (for example) self check out library items. Security in buildings is a big area of opportunity. Airports is

sensor and RFID data, there are many opportunities for usage in environmental products and services. Green Watch is a project that we reviewed at the end of last year. It's literally a watch, which measures ozone levels and noise pollution. The watch connects wirelessly to the wearer's mobile phone and sends updates to Citypulse, an open platform for receiving and storing environmental data. It's still a prototype at this point, but (ahem) watch out for it in the one obvious example and the future. a d v e n t o f b i o m e t r i c Another prototype project is the passports(sometimes called C o m m o n S e n s e R e s e a r c h ePassports) is where we'll likely Project at Berkeley, which see a lot of RFID usage. measures air quality. The project Speaking of airports, RFID tags is "developing mobile sensing on luggage is an application t e c h n o l o g i e s t h a t h e l p begging to be introduced - as communities gather and analyze my own tale of lost luggage woe environmental data." At the from last year attests. Mobile Summit, this notion led Collecting tolls from cars using to a discussion about the FasTrack is yet another use case b u s i n e s s c a s e f o r t h i s for RFID in the physical world. technology. Whose fault is it for Environment, Green & Energy poor air quality; for example can Just as there are plenty of polluting companies be held building and object applications responsible for air pollution? waiting to be built on top of One Mobile Summit participant

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wanted a smart garbage pail that auto reorders an item when you have thrown it out. That segued to a discussion about paying by the weight of garbage. RFID could also be used to match a trash can with its owner! Sensors could be used to detect the 'green quality' of a food producer, for example allergens. Smart meters from power companies is something that is already happening. Also water for example IBM's water management system for the city of Dublin. It measures things such as "the movement of pollutants in fresh water, marine and oceanic environments." As you can see, some of these ideas are already in production (HP Labs, IBM). Others are in prototype, still others are but a twinkle in the proverbial milk man's eye. Now let us know, in the comments, your own ideas for mobile apps that make use of sensor and RFID data. Image credits: Datascan; Common Sense Project Discuss

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Milner: I’m not in business of influencing them… I’m influencing by them. I can bring Alex Williams * The WebSphere group now s o m e g l o b a l p e r s p e c t i v e . (ReadWriteWeb) connect and communicate with has even *more* integration Because we’re global we can p a r t n e r s , c u s t o m e r s a n d software -- hey, has anyone seen p o t e n t i a l b r i n g g l o b a l Submitted at 5/24/2010 10:29:32 AM perspective to the table. suppliers through an on-premise my software roadmap GPS? Rose: Where are the I B M i s b u y i n g S t e r l i n g infrastructure or cloud delivery * S t e r l i n g C o l l a b o r a t i v e opportunities on the Internet? Commerce for $.4 billion. It is model. Network + Cast Iron Cloud == IBM's largest acquisition since Sponsor A viable integration as a service Milner: A lot of it will be purchasing Cognos in 1987 for Sterling Commerce provides offering for both traditional driving by US, picked up $922 million. business transaction, selling and ecommerce & Cloud services elsewhere.. The acquisition of the AT&T fulfillment software. IBM's goal * The WebSphere group now Rose: Are there restrictions in c o m p a n y i s i n t e n d e d t o is to accelerate IBM's efforts to has a bunch of Apps -- some terms of international? Will we complement IBM's middleware capture more share in the inherently multi-enterprise Apps see some kind of loosening of portfolio and help customers business integration software -- that's a lot *on top* of who has access to the market? Or does access present a d e v e l o p m o r e i n t e l l i g e n t and services market. application infrastructure business networks. Gartner Gartner's Benoit Lheureux says * I B M h a s p i t c h e d t h i s p r o b l e m ? believes the acquisition is a the acquisition shows the acquisition in the context of Milner: I think China is going c o m p l e m e n t t o I B M ' s deepening interest in the B2B "Dynamic Business Networks" - to go its own way. Russia is acquisition of Cast Iron Systems space:"We're already working - more expansive, but builds completely open as far as a few weeks ago. on a consolidated response to u p o n b u s i n e s s p r o c e s s c o m p e t i t i o n i s c o n c e r n e d . Facebook is competing with a The transaction environment is this acquisition as well, but n e t w o r k s " undergoing rapid change as shooting from the hip here's a Gartner estimates the market is whole bunch of local networks. customers increasingly make few initial reactions: $5 billion. It is growing at 10% FB is blocked in China. Rose: Do you think that will purchases online and through * Acquired by IBM WebSphere annual rate. change? electronic systems via any group, along with Cast Iron, IBM is spending aggressively number of indirect channels. L o m b a r d i , e t c . - - t h e y ' r e to expand its offerings. The Milner: I don’t know. It’s a I B M ' s e x p e c t a t i o n i s t h a t decisively assembling a lotta company is on pace to spend tough question. In Russia, I S t e r l i n g C o m m e r c e w i l l B2B horsepower $20 billion in acquisitions by don’t see any signs of it changing. simplify the way organizations 2015. Discuss Rose: Finally, Facebook privacy. Where are we. Milner: I think the definition of (Cooking Light: Editor's Picks) well here. Their natural sugars Next Mango Rice Salad with p r i v a c y i s c h a n g i n g a s everything else. People view caramelize during cooking, Grilled Shrimp Grapes are probably the last giving the finished dish the Five Filters featured article: p r i v a c y n o w d i f f e r e n t a s thing you'd think of to put on c h a r r e d The Art of Looking Prime grilled chicken, but combined crust that makes grilled food Ministerial - The 2010 UK w i t h s o y s a u c e , b a l s a m i c great. General Election. Available v i n e g a r , View Recipe: Grilled Chicken tools: PDF Newspaper, Full and rosemary, they really work with Fresh Grape Glaze Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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opposed to five years ago. There’s something called Zuckerberg law. Similar to Moore’s law. Every 12-18 months the amount of information being shared between people is doubling. Basically means that people at large don’t really see that as a huge concern. But when they do I think Facebook is providing the tools to limit the information. I think the WP article today talks about making them more visible. Rose: You want to be in this for a long time, how do you define a long time? Milner: I think the companies we are investing in are in 5-1015 year trend. I do want to stick around and watch them grow.. Rose: What is it about these goldman sachs people, you’re 75% Goldman Sachs. Milner: They didn’t give me a job 10 years ago so I’m taking their people *laughs*. CrunchBase Information Yuri Milner Charlie Rose Information provided by CrunchBase

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while Nokia hopes that Yahoo could provide it a bit of a USA mojo. Interestingly, Olli-Pekka Carol Bartz and Olli-Pekka confronted the US problem head Kallasvuo, CEOs of Yahoo! and on: "We are an unusual global Nokia, respectively, are on stage company in the sense that we r i g h t n o w a n n o u n c i n g a are clearly a global leader in our "strategic relationship" between industry, and yet we do not lead the two companies on some of in the US." Carol was similarly their core services. Nokia will forthcoming, saying that Yahoo be using Yahoo to power its Ovi had "lost its focus on maps a email and IM services, while c o u p l e y e a r s a g o , " t h e n Yahoo will be using Nokia / correcting herself, saying that NAVTEQ's competencies for its they "chose to focus on other m a p p i n g a n d n a v i g a t i o n areas." The first merged services services. Both companies see it should launch in the second half a s a w a y t o g r o w t h e i r of this year. respective userbases, with They're answering questions Yahoo hoping to grab onto the 9 right now, the big answer to million Ovi users out there, everything seems to be "scale," Submitted at 5/24/2010 10:05:00 AM

but we also heard Carol toss in "downstream" at an opportune moment. When asked how this relates to Android, iPhone and so forth, Carol clarified that this doesn't change anything they're

doing on those fronts. "It's not exclusive from that point." Each service will be branded as "powered by Yahoo" or "powered by Ovi." Yahoo will be announcing some "social-

Offshore wind project in Lake Erie moves ahead (CNET News.com) Submitted at 5/24/2010 8:10:17 AM

General Electric and an Ohiobased wind developer plan to build an offshore wind farm in Lake Erie in late 2012, the companies said Monday. Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo) and GE said they have formed a partnership to build a 20megawatt wind farm in Lake Erie using GE's direct-drive turbines, which are designed for offshore wind. The companies announced the deal at the

American Wind Energy Association's annual conference in Dallas. Coming to Lake Erie, Ohio? A demonstration offshore wind farm in Europe.(Credit: GE) The 20-megawatt project, planned for outside Cleveland, Ohio, will use GE's 4-megawatt turbines, which feature a gearless, direct drive technology designed for reliability, particularly in offshore applications. After that first phase, the partnership envisions developing 1,000 megawatts of wind power in Ohio waters by

2020. If successful, the wind farm would be the first offshore wind project in fresh waters in the U.S. The Cape Wind project off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., received federal regulatory approval in April and is now negotiating power purchase agreements, with a goal of operating in 2013. The Great Lakes region has good wind and potential for substantial power production, according to GE and LEEDCo. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory said that Lake Erie is

in a zone with highest rated wind. "This partnership will not only advance offshore wind technologies, it will also advance Ohio's economy," Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland said in a statement. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

like" services for its mail and IM soon, but it's unclear if that's specifically related to this announcement. Neither company is talking financial specifics, but Olli-Pekka did make it very clear that a Yahoobranded device wasn't forthcoming. Nokia and Yahoo announce 'worldwide strategic alliance' on email, IM, maps, and more originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 10:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| | Email this| Comments

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TUAW's Daily App: Call of Atlantis Yahoo, Nokia To Launch Co-Branded Services Around The World Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 5/24/2010 8:00:00 AM

Filed under: iPhone I am really looking forward to Puzzle Quest 2, since I was such a fan of the first game on XBLA. But until that comes out, Call of Atlantis is a polished gem-matcher that combines match-3 gameplay with a little bit of story and adventure. I believe it started out as a PC game, but you wouldn't be able to tell -- the graphics look like they were designed for the iPhone, and the gameplay fits perfectly on a mobile device. If you've played any match-3 games, you already know the score here -- switch icons on a board to match up three of the same kind, and those will disappear, bringing more into play. But Call of Atlantis mixes things up a bit by providing

board for you as well. It's simple gameplay, but a strategy quickly unfolds -- do you clear that enticing five of a kind, or go for the quick three right below the item you need to collect? And while there is an overarching story of Gods and Atlantis, complete with art and voiceover, it's just icing on the cake of sweet, sweet gameplay. Call of Atlantis is a steal at 99 cents -- it's a budget title that feels and plays like a much more expensive game. items to grab -- the idea on each TUAW TUAW's Daily App: stage is to get certain parts of a Call of Atlantis originally larger item (or special powerup appeared on The Unofficial items) to the bottom of the Apple Weblog (TUAW) on screen, and off the board. Mon, 24 May 2010 08:00:00 Complete all the pieces of the EST. Please see our terms for main item and the level is over. use of feeds. Matching four or five of a kind Read| Permalink| Email this| will power up a meter that will Comments help clear the board out, and collecting powerup items like Bombs will clear out part of a

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It's official: Steve Jobs will deliver the WWDC keynote Dave Unofficial FiledCaolo under: WWDC IT'S(The page 30 Apple Apple Weblog (TUAW)) issued a press release this morning officially announcing

Leena Rao (TechCrunch) Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:09:55 AM

While we already knew the subject of this news, Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz officially announced Project Nike, a distribution partnership with Nokia this morning. Nokia will build Yahoo email, search, and other applications into their devices. As part of the agreement, Nokia will be the exclusive, global provider of Yahoo’s maps and navigation services, integrating Ovi Maps across Yahoo properties, branded as “powered by Ovi.” Yahoo will become the exclusive, global provider of Nokia’s Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat services branded as “Ovi Mail / Ovi Chat powered by Yahoo!”. Nokia and Yahoo also plan to work on ID federation between their services. Select, cobranded service offerings are expected to become available from the second half of 2010, with global availability expected in 2011. The announcement was made at the NASDAQ in New York

City. As my colleague MG Siegler wrote last week, this play seems to be more of a short-term gain. In terms of the long-term, the future is in smartphones, a sector where Nokia is declining. Nokia is strong, however, in sales of feature phones, which are phones that people still mainly use to do things like make phones calls and send text messages. For now, thanks to the evolving markets in thirdworld countries, this remains an important segment and it’s certainly a compelling opportunity for Yahoo. Also, catch Carol Bartz speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt today about the deal and future of Yahoo. CrunchBase Information Yahoo! Nokia Information provided by CrunchBase

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that Steve Jobs will deliver the WWDC keynote on June 7th. The sold-out event will take place in San Francisco at the Moscone Center's West building, and Jobs will kick things off at 10:00 AM Pacific. Of course, we'll have plenty of coverage, so be sure to check back. The question is: What's left for Steve to announce? Gizmodo and Tinhte have probably exposed the new iPhone, though we still haven't seen the final version of iPhone OS 4 up and running. Plus, there are suggestions that the casing Gizmodo showed off wasn't

final (you'll notice that the prototype in Vietnam had fewer visible screws). Of course, it's not entirely about the iPhone. Here are my predictions of what we'll see from Steve at WWDC '10: • iPhone 4th Generation with new A4 processor, more RAM, possibly more storage space, improved, front-facing camera, iChat. Tethering via AT&T will be Steve's "One more thing." Release date announced for the end of July. • iPhone OS 4 release date announced for the end of July. • iTunes 9.2 • Updated Mac Pro systems

(long overdue). • Mac OS X 10.7 Preview. We'll find out for sure in a couple of weeks. TUAW It's official: Steve Jobs will deliver the WWDC keynote originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 24 May 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Auto-Repair Service Plans from Consumer Reports Submitted at 5/23/2010 10:01:00 PM Consumer Reports has long found extended warranties According to an email from the usually don't make financial Facebook CEO earlier today, sense. And when we looked at Facebook is planning some the terms of auto-repair service changes to their much-debated plans, we found other reasons to privacy policies. avoid them. Auto-Repair Mark Zuckerberg told blogger S e r v i c e P L a n s P o d c a s t Subscribe now! FACEBOOK page 31 S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed Curt Hopkins (ReadWriteWeb) frustrations of entry-level users preferences while also expanding the Submitted at 5/23/2010 10:00:00 PM resources of experts." ESRI's Bern Szukalski Tweeted This announcement follows PANDIGITAL'S continued from page 25 today that ArcGIS and ArcGIS hard on the heels of another Explorer are now live. ESRI's announcement, cloud (Mac and PC compatible) ArcGIS is a communityavailability.(C)ustomers have friendly online system for the option to purchase a cloud- All in all this looks pretty good geographic information from based subscription to ArcGIS on paper--particularly at the ESRI, the GIS software Server, ESRI's server-based $200 price point--but it's worth company. The system was geographic information system mentioning that its backlit LCD debuted at the 2010 ESRI (GIS) software. With this will get washed out in direct Developer Summit in March. option, users can purchase an sunlight, making it more of an Sponsor annual subscription, which indoor reading device than an Matt Ball of Spatial Sustain publish maps online over the barrier to GIS functionality bundles a preconfigured ArcGIS outdoor one like the Kindle or describes the interoperability Web and to handheld devices. online...The concept of the Server instance on Amazon's Nook. However, at $200, it The site has a great deal of template approach to map Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) seems more versatile than the and the focus on templates. "The site allows you to see a f u n c t i o n a l i t y t h a t w i l l b e making is one of the primary infrastructure with 12 months of Nook ($259), which led us to map gallery, to share with enhanced over time...The site is enhancements of this release, ESRI technical support and ask Barnes & Noble reps groups of like-minded map a i m e d a t c o m m u n i t y aiming to create stylized themes maintenance. Discuss PANDIGITAL'S page 32 makers, and to make and development and lowers the and map galleries to reduce the

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Robert Scoble, "We're going to be ready to start talking about some of the new things we've built this week." Sponsor The full text of the email exchange is available on Scoble's blog and a screenshot of the exchange is available on Flickr. "We've been listening to all the feedback and have been trying to distill it down to the key things we need to improve. I'd like to show an improved product rather than just talk about things we might do.

We're going to be ready to start talking about some of the new things we've built this week. I want to make sure we get this stuff right this time. I know we've made a bunch of mistakes, but my hope at the end of this is that the service ends up in a better place and that people understand that our intentions are in the right place and we respond to the feedback from the people we serve." If Facebook does in fact improve the "key things" that people have been worried about, then perhaps Zuckerberg's hope

may be realized. People may understand the company's intentions and recognize them as positive, as well as recognize its willingness to listen to and learn from its users. The key will be in tangible changes, though, and not just in presenting the way in which the privacy decisions were made. Screenshot from Robert Scoble Discuss

Soda machine controlled by iPhone app Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 5/23/2010 6:30:00 PM

Filed under: iPhone Recent MIT comp sci grad Chris Varenhorst found a cheap soda machine on Craigslist a while back, and he decided to do what any self-respecting computer science student would do nowadays: hook it up to the Internet. He created wiring to make the machine believe it had credits whenever a circuit was connected, and then wired that

to an Internet service. He also created an iPhone app that sent messages to the server, so he could press a button from anywhere and make the machine dispense a cold drink. Unfortunately, he says he would sometimes press the button while out and about, and come back to his apartment to find a warm beer sitting in the machine. He's graduated now and moving out, so Varenhorst and his roommates decided to sell the machine on eBay, with part of the funds going to

charity. It sold for just $76 (not too surprising -- who really needs a soda machine sitting around their house?), but the project itself is very cool. TUAW Soda machine controlled by iPhone app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 23 May 2010 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Jobs was out on medical leave and was unable to give the WWDC address. Apple on Monday confirmed WWDC 2010 sold out eight that CEO Steve Jobs will deliver days after tickets went on sale the opening keynote address at this year, even though the event the company's Worldwide was announced later than usual. D e v e l o p e r s C o n f e r e n c e Apple expects around 5,000 (WWDC) next month. developers to attend the Jobs' keynote will kick off this c o n f e r e n c e . year's conference on Monday, Sessions for this year's J u n e 7 , a t 1 0 a . m . P D T . conference include Application Typically, the event is held in Frameworks; Internet & Web; Moscone West in San Francisco, Graphics & Media; Developer the same place Apple holds the Tools; and Core OS. developer conference. Five Filters featured article: It's widely expected that Jobs The Art of Looking Prime will talk about iPhone OS 4, the Ministerial - The 2010 UK new mobile operating system General Election. Available unveiled in April, and perhaps tools: PDF Newspaper, Full give some details on the next- Text RSS, Term Extraction. generation iPhone 4G. Last year Submitted at 5/24/2010 8:52:16 AM

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whether they thought the Novel might cannibalize sales of its own e-reader. Mary Ellen Keating, a Barnes & Noble spokesperson, had this Laura June (Engadget) to say: Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:21:00 AM "Barnes & Noble's strategy is to offer our content on multiple Make of this what you will, but platforms, so we're happy to when the FCC recently released power this new device and its report on the state of others. Nook is a dedicated competition in the wireless eReading device with key industry, it left a few choice design, reading and in-store words out. Namely, it failed to features that are innovative, describe the industry as having immersive and exciting for our "effective competition" for the customers. We don't believe our first time since 2002. The report continued work with third-party -- which covers the period of industry. Regardless, the report partners will have any effect on 2008 and part of 2009 -- could actually fails to come to a our continued strong Nook conclusion on the whole matter, signal the government is getting ready to regulate and impost leaving the FCC's options pretty policies to encourage and open at this point, so we're increase competition in the going to have to keep an eye on Lauren Hirsch (The Unofficial wireless industry. AT&T's the boys. senior vice president of federal FCC leaves out the "effective Apple Weblog (TUAW)) regulatory policy, Robert Quinn, competition" description for the Submitted at 5/23/2010 7:30:00 PM said that the move toward more wireless industry originally regulation is "unwarranted," appeared on Engadget on Mon, Filed under: App Review"Lace while Verizon's Kathleen Grillo 24 May 2010 09:21:00 EDT. up your shoes (oh, ay, oh, ay!) / said that the "facts" have already Please see our terms for use of Here's how we do / Run baby shown that there is, in fact, feeds. Permalink| Reuters| Email run / Don't ever look back" Are you like me? Do you like enough competition in the this| Comments the running? Do you like running with your iPhone? I love to run, and I need music. Just the right song can turn a mediocre run into something transcendental. But what was it that separated the motivating songs from the energy-sapping ones? Turns out,

sales." Probably part of the reason why Barnes & Noble isn't too concerned is because the Novel will only have limited distribution when it's released in the next month. We hope to have a full review up in the next few weeks. Until then, let us know what you think about it. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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it's at least partly the beat. A song that pounds along with my stride is always welcome. For a spell, I tried finding songs that would do that. I even checked

out Podrunner podcasts--the 'casts are set to a particular beats per minute (BPM) that you can choose. Problem was, I wasn't that excited about the music. Sure, it was the right tempo, but I wanted my songs. TUAW App review: Cadence keeps the beat originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 23 May 2010 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Samsung demos 19-inch transparent AMOLED display Vladislav Savov (Engadget) Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:02:00 AM

We don't know what kind of display-making genii Samsung has locked away in its R&D labs, but the Korean giant is once again demonstrating a world's first. This time we're looking at a 19-inch transparent Continue reading LG Vu Plus AMOLED display, taking the coming to AT&T on June 6 for technology up from the 14-inch $150 model we saw live at CES in LG Vu Plus coming to AT&T January. The company has now on June 6 for $150 originally a c h i e v e d a 3 0 p e r c e n t appeared on Engadget on Mon, transparency on its designs, and 24 May 2010 10:04:00 EDT. its ideas for how they may be Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| | Email this| Comments

LG Vu Plus coming to AT&T on June 6 for $150 Chris Ziegler (Engadget) Submitted at 5/24/2010 10:04:00 AM

So that Vu Plus we'd tipped for a June 6 release has just gone official, and needless to say, it's not your daddy's Vu. The most notable change is the addition of a landscape slider QWERTY keyboard, but one of the Vu's hallmark's -- support for AT&T's FLO-based Mobile TV service -- carries over for $9.99

a month with a free 7-day trial subscription. It's got a 3-inch capacitive touchscreen, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, a 3 megapixel autofocus cam with video recording, AT&T Video Share compatibility, and microSD expansion if the phone's internal 50MB just aren't cutting it. Look for it to hit shelves for $149.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate. Follow the break for the full release.

used are fittingly futuristic. Samsung envisions storefront advertising, Ă la your favorite sci-fi movie, as well as HUDs for helmets and car windshields -- maybe if TomTom can secure a supply of these screens, the dedicated GPS device can find a way to live on after all. Samsung demos 19-inch transparent AMOLED display originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 09:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink OLEDDisplay.net| etnews.co.kr| Email this| Comments

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LG Fathom gets real with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 on Verizon Joshua Topolsky (Engadget) Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:42:00 AM

If you're still hanging on to the hope that Windows Mobile is going to serve you just fine in the coming years, LG and Verizon have at least one more option for your phone needs -and it's running 6.5.3, a first for a US carrier launch. Enter the LG Fathom, a 1GHz touchscreen device with a 3.2inch screen, slide out QWERTY keyboard, WiFi, a microSD slot (for up to 16GB of storage), and a 3.2 megapixel camera. The

device will be available for preorders on May 27th, with a street date of June 3rd, and will run you $149.99 after a two year contract and $100 mail-in

rebate. If you want all the details, just check out the PR after the break. Continue reading LG Fathom gets real with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 on Verizon LG Fathom gets real with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 on Verizon originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 09:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| | Email this| Comments

Sort your crashlogs with Hazel TJ Luoma (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:00:00 AM

Filed under: Odds and ends, UNIX / BSD I've been on a bit of a Hazel kick lately. I wrote a short shell script that will sort my Crash Logs. #!/bin/sh ### Get the name of the app APP=`/bin/echo $1 | /usr/bin/sed 's#_.*##g'` ###

make a directory /bin/mkdir -p "$APP" ### move the log into the directory /bin/mv -n "$1" "$APP" ### done! exit 0

Add this rule to the folder ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticRepo rts. The rules above tell Hazel to only run on crash logs older

Grilled Flank Steak with Mushrooms (Simply Recipes) Submitted at 5/23/2010 6:15:00 PM

Get ready for something fabulous. Steak and mushrooms. Grilled flank steak that is, and assorted mushrooms dry sautéed first, then sautéed with butter, shallots, and cooked down in a red wine reduction. If you don't than today, in case you need to want to navigate between the do anything with it such as send stovetop and the grill, you can it to the developer. make the mushrooms ahead, and TUAW Sort your crashlogs reheat when it's time for the with Hazel originally appeared steak to come off the grill. The o n T h e U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e mushrooms will go with any Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 24 steak, skirt steak, hanger steak, May 2010 09:00:00 EST. tri-tip, or even a grilled Please see our terms for use of hamburger. Grilling season is feeds. here my friends. Let the good Read| Permalink| Email this| times roll. (Please make this, Comments you'll thank me.) Continue reading "Grilled Flank Steak with Mushrooms" »

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America's New Culture War: Free Enterprise vs. Government Control (AEI.Org: Articles)

economy, from the health-care takeover to the financial regulatory bill that the Senate America faces a new culture approved Thursday. If these war. forces continue to prevail, This is not the culture war of America will cease to be a free the 1990s. It is not a fight over enterprise nation. guns, gays or abortion. Those I call this a culture war because old battles have been eclipsed free enterprise has been integral by a new struggle between two to American culture from the c o m p e t i n g v i s i o n s o f t h e beginning, and it still lies at the country's future. In one, core of our history and America will continue to be an character. "A wise and frugal exceptional nation organized government," Thomas Jefferson around the principles of free declared in his first inaugural enterprise--limited government, address in 1801, "which shall a reliance on entrepreneurship restrain men from injuring one and rewards determined by another, shall leave them market forces. In the other, otherwise free to regulate their America will move toward own pursuits of industry and E u r o p e a n - s t y l e s t a t i s m improvement, and shall not take g r o u n d e d i n e x p a n d i n g from the mouth of labor the b u r e a u c r a c i e s , a m a n a g e d bread it has earned. This is the economy and large-scale income sum of good government." He redistribution. These visions are later warned: "To take from one, not reconcilable. We must because it is thought that his choose. own industry and that of his It is not at all clear which side fathers has acquired too much, will prevail. The forces of big in order to spare to others, who, government are entrenched and or whose fathers, have not enjoy the full arsenal of the exercised equal industry and administration's money and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the i n f l u e n c e . O u r l e a d e r s i n first principle of association, the Washington, aided by the guarantee to every one of a free unprecedented economic crisis exercise of his industry and the of recent years and the panic it fruits acquired by it." In other i n d u c e d , h a v e s e i z e d t h e words, beware government's m o m e n t t o i n t r o d u c e economic control, and woe breathtaking expansions of state betide the redistributors. power in huge swaths of the Now, as then, entrepreneurship Submitted at 5/23/2010 6:00:00 PM

can flourish only in a culture where individuals are willing to innovate and exert leadership; where people enjoy the rewards and face the consequences of their decisions; and where we can gamble the security of the status quo for a chance of future success. Yet, in his commencement address at Arizona State University on May 13, 2009, President Obama warned against precisely such impulses: "You're taught to chase after all the usual brass rings; you try to be on this "who's who" list or that Top 100 list; you chase after the big money and you figure out how big your corner office is; you worry about whether you have a fancy enough title or a fancy enough car. That's the message that's sent each and every day, or has been in our culture for far too long--that through material possessions, through a ruthless competition pursued only on your own behalf--that's how you will measure success." Such ambition, he cautioned, "may lead you to compromise your values and your principles." I appreciate the sentiment that money does not buy happiness. But for the president of the United States to actively warn young adults away from economic ambition is

remarkable. And he makes clear that he seeks to change our culture. The irony is that, by wide margins, Americans support free enterprise. A Gallup poll in January found that 86 percent of Americans have a positive image of "free enterprise," with only 10 percent viewing it negatively. Similarly, in March 2009, the Pew Research Center asked individuals from a broad range of demographic groups: "Generally, do you think people are better off in a free-market economy, even though there may be severe ups and downs from time to time, or don't you think so?" Almost 70 percent of respondents agreed that they are better off in a free-market economy, while only 20 percent disagreed. In fact, no matter how the issue is posed, not more than 30 percent of Americans say they believe we would fare better without free markets at the core of our system. When it comes to support for free enterprise, we are essentially a 70-30 nation. So here's a puzzle: If we love free enterprise so much, why are the 30 percent who want to change that culture in charge? It's not simply because of the election of Obama. As much as Republicans may dislike hearing it, statism had effectively taken

hold in Washington long before that. The George W. Bush administration began the huge Wall Street and Detroit bailouts, and for years before the economic crisis, the GOP talked about free enterprise while simultaneously expanding the government with borrowed money and increasing the percentage of citizens with no income tax liability. The 30 percent coalition did not start governing this country with the advent of Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. It has been in charge for years. But the real tipping point was the financial crisis, which began in 2008. The meltdown presented a golden opportunity for the 30 percent coalition to attack free enterprise openly and remake America in its own image. And it seized that opportunity. While Republicans had no convincing explanation for the crisis, seemed responsible for it and had no obvious plans to fix it, the statists offered a full and compelling narrative. Ordinary Americans were not to blame for the financial collapse, nor was government. The real culprits were Wall Street and the Bush administration, which had AMERICA'S page 36

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gutted the regulatory system that was supposed to keep banks in line. The solution was obvious: Vote for a new order to expand the powers of government to rein in the dangerous excesses of capitalism. It was a convincing story. For a lot of panicky Americans, the prospect of a paternalistic government rescuing the nation from crisis seemed appealing as stock markets and home prices spiraled downward. According to this narrative, government was at fault in just one way: It wasn't big enough. If only there had been more regulators watching the banks more closely, the case went, the economy wouldn't have collapsed. Yet in truth, it was government housing policy that was at the root of the crisis. Moreover, the financial sector--where the crisis began and where it has had the most serious impact--is already one of the most regulated parts of our economy. The chaos happened despite an extensive, intrusive regulatory framework, not because such a framework didn't exist. More government--including a super-empowered Federal Reserve, a consumer protection watchdog and greater state powers to wind down financial firms and police market risks-does not mean we will be safe. On the contrary, such changes

would give us a false sense of security, especially when Washington, a primary culprit in the crisis, is creating and implementing the new rules. The statist narrative also held that only massive deficit spending could restore economic growth. "If nothing is done, this recession could linger for years," Obama warned a few days before taking office. "Only government can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a recession this deep and severe. Only government can break the cycle that is crippling our economy." This proposition is as expensive as it is false. Recessions can and do end without the kind of stimulus we experienced, and attempts to shore up the economy with huge public spending often do little to improve matters and instead chain future generations with debt. In fact, all the evidence so far tells us that the current $787 billion stimulus package has overpromised and underdelivered, especially when it comes to creating jobs. If we reject the administration's narrative, the 70-30 nation will remain strong. If we accept it, and base our nation's policies on it, we will be well on our way to a European-style social democracy. Punitive taxes and regulations will make it harder to be an entrepreneur, and the rewards of success will be

expropriated for the sake of greater income equality. The new statism in America, made possible by years of drift and accelerated by the panic over the economic crisis, threatens to make us permanently poorer. But that is not the greatest danger. The real risk is that in the new culture war, we will forsake the third unalienable right set out in our Declaration of Independence: the pursuit of happiness. Free enterprise brings happiness; redistribution does not. The reason is that only free enterprise brings earned success. Earned success involves the ability to create value honestly-not by inheriting a fortune, not by picking up a welfare check. It doesn't mean making money in and of itself. Earned success is the creation of value in our lives or in the lives of others. Earned success is the stuff of entrepreneurs who seek value through innovation, hard work and passion. Earned success is what parents feel when their children do wonderful things, what social innovators feel when they change lives, what artists feel when they create something of beauty. Money is not the same as earned success but is rather a symbol, important not for what it can buy but for what it says about how people are contributing and what kind of difference they are making.

Money corresponds to happiness only through earned success. Not surprisingly, unearned money--while it may help alleviate suffering--carries with it no personal satisfaction. Studies of lottery winners, for instance, show that after a brief period of increased happiness, their moods darken as they no longer derive the same enjoyment from the simple pleasures in life, and as the glow of buying things wears off. The same results emerge with other kinds of unearned income-welfare payments, for example. According to the University of Michigan's 2001 Panel Study of Income Dynamics, going on the welfare rolls increases by 16 percent the likelihood of a person saying that she or he has felt inconsolably sad over the past month. Of course, the misery of welfare recipients probably goes well beyond the check itself. Nonetheless, studies show that recipients are far unhappier than equally poor people who do not receive such government benefits. Benjamin Franklin (a pretty rich man for his time) grasped the truth about money's inability by itself to deliver satisfaction. "Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it," he declared. "The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one." If unearned money does not bring happiness, redistributing

money by force won't make for a happier America--and the redistributionists' theory of a better society through income equality falls apart. The goal of our system should be to give all Americans the greatest opportunities possible to succeed based on their work and merit. And that's exactly what the free enterprise system does: It makes earned success possible for the most people. This is the liberty that enables the true pursuit of happiness. To win the culture war, those of us in the 70 percent majority must reclaim--and proclaim--the morality of our worldview. Unfortunately, we often fail to do this. Instead, we sound unabashedly materialistic. We talk about growth rates, inflation and investment, while the 30 percent coalition walks off with the claims to happiness and fairness. (According to Obama, for example, we need to restore "fairness" to our tax code by increasing taxes on the wealthy and exempting more people at the bottom from paying anything.) The irony is that it is the 30 percent coalition, not the 70 percent majority, that is fundamentally materialistic. What do they consider the greatest problem of poor people in America? Insufficient income. What would be AMERICA'S page 37

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evidence of a fairer society? Greater income equality. For the leaders of the 30 percent coalition, money does buy happiness--as long as it is spread evenly. That is why redistribution of income is a fundamental goal and why free enterprise, which rewards some people and penalizes others, cannot be trusted. The 70 percent majority, meanwhile, believes that ingenuity and hard work should be rewarded. We admire creative entrepreneurs and disdain rule-making bureaucrats. We know that income inequality by itself is not what makes people unhappy, and that only earned success can make them happy. We must do more to show that while we use the language of commerce and business, we believe in human flourishing and contentment. We must articulate moral principles that set forth our fundamental values, and we must be prepared to defend them. This defense is already underway, in a disorganized, grass-roots, American kind of way. Protests against the new statism have flared around the nation for more than a year. And while some have tried to dismiss the "tea party" demonstrations and the town hall protests of last summer as the work of extremists, ignorant

backwoodsmen or agents of the health-care industry, these movements reveal much about the culture war that is underway. Just compare the protests in America with those in Europe. Here, we see tea partiers demonstrating against the government's encroachment on the free enterprise system and protesting the fact that the state is spending too much money bailing out too many people. Why are people protesting in Greece? Because they want the government to give them even more. They are angry because their government--in the face of its worst economic and perhaps existential crisis in decades-won't pay the lavish pensions to which they feel entitled. There's no better example of the cultural difference between America and Europe today, yet it is toward European-style social democracy that the 30 percent coalition wants to move us. Fortunately, it is hard to dismiss the voice of the voters in some of our most recent electoral contests. Scott Brown won the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat from Massachusetts in January by declaring himself not an apparatchik Republican but a moral enthusiast for markets. "What made America great?" he asked. "Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging

government." His cultural pitch for free enterprise hit just the right chord, even in liberal Massachusetts. It struck at the heart of the 30 percent coalition's agenda for America. Brown's victory--and Rand Paul's triumph in Kentucky's Republican Senate primary last week, for that matter--are but warning shots in the burgeoning culture war. The most intense battles are still ahead. To win, the 70 percent majority must come together around core principles: that the purpose of free enterprise is human flourishing, not materialism; that we stand for equality of opportunity, not equality of income; that we seek to stimulate true prosperity rather than simply treat poverty; and that we believe in principle over power.ad_icon This final idea is particularly challenging. In Washington, a lot of people think they know how to win. They say what is needed are telegenic candidates, dirty tricks and lots of campaign money. To them, thinking longterm means thinking all the way to 2012. In other words, they talk only of tactics, parties and power. They are wrong. What matters most to Americans is the commitment to principle, not the exercise of power. The electorate did not repudiate free enterprise in 2008; it simply

punished an unprincipled Republican Party. But political turmoil can lead to renewal, and the challenges of this new culture war can help us mobilize and reassert our principles. The 2008 election was perhaps exactly what America needed. Today there is a very real threat that the 30 percent coalition may transform our great nation forever. I hope this threat will clear our thinking enough to bring forth leaders-regardless of political party-with our principles at heart and the ideas to match. If free enterprise triumphs over the quest for political power, America will be the stronger for it. Arthur C. Brooks is the president of AEI. Please click here to learn more about Arthur C. Brooks and his new book, The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future. Photo Credit: COMSTOCK Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Jeff Saut: You'd Be A Fool To Bet Against The Market At These Levels Joe Weisenthal (The Money Game)

Accompanying that low, however, were some pretty amazing statistics. For example, Submitted at 5/24/2010 8:51:36 AM according to my friends at Add Jeff Saut of Raymond Bespoke Investment Group, as James to those who think the scribed last Thursday: market is clearly oversold at “The S&P 500 and all ten current levels: sectors are in extremely “She’s got legs, she knows how o v e r s o l d t e r r i t o r y . We to use them,” the year was 1990 recommend getting long here and the group – ZZ Top; except regardless of your long-term in this case I am not talking view of the market. Only 6% of about the hit song, but rather the S&P 500 stocks are trading s t o c k m a r k e t f o r a f t e r a above their 50-day moving somewhat “kiss your sister” averages. Only one percent of type session the Dow put “legs the Financial sector stocks are on” to the upside late last above their 50-DMAs, while not Friday. “She’s got legs” indeed one single Energy stock is above for the session may have locked its 50-DMA. (Moreover) The up the lows, at least on a short- S&P 500 is currently three term basis. To be sure, the standard deviations below its 50 sequence was about right - D M A . W e b e l i e v e t h e following the crashette of May February lows will hold, and 6th at ~1066 based on the S&P this market will bounce back, at 500 (SPX/1087.69). Recall least to its 50-DMA (currently at after that “flash crash” we got 1170.89) over the next month or the perfunctory 1 – 3 session so. At times like these, it may stabilization/bounce followed by seem like it is more risky to get the downside retest of that long than it is to get short, but ~1066 intraday low. As stated, history has shown that the exact s o m e t i m e s s a i d l o w i s opposite is true.” marginally violated, but most of Well said, Bespoke; and I the time it is not. Obviously, the would add, at Friday’s lows the S P X ’ s M a y 6 t h l o w w a s SPX was an eye-popping 9.8% violated last week by Friday’s below its 50-DMA. Ladies and intraday low of 1055.90. gentlemen, history suggests that

betting on the downside when the SPX is more than 6% below its 50-DMA is a bad bet! And then on Friday there was this from Jason Goepfert’s brilliant website (sentimentrader.com): 1) This is only the 6th time in history the S&P 500 futures have declined 5 days in a row and then gapped down (by) at least 1%. All five of the others closed above the opening price. 2) The total put/call ratio is poised to close at its 4th-highest level since modern reporting began in 1995. The other 3 were all clustered in late February, early March, of 2007 (right before a 12% rally). 3) The Up Issues Ratio is so low, at just under 4%, that only two other days since 1950 can match this bad breadth. They were 9/26/55 and 10/19/87 (the crash), after which we saw vicious short-term bounces. Meanwhile, the market continues to trade lower, with the Dow currently off 73. Join the conversation about this story »

Town At Ground Zero Of Oil Crisis Holding Emergency Meeting Tonight On Fate Of This Summer's Fishing Rodeos Gus Lubin (The Money Game) Submitted at 5/24/2010 8:05:00 AM

Oil-plastered beach town Grand Isle, LA is holding an emergency meeting this evening to determine the fate of 18 summer fishing rodeos. As of this moment, next weekend's Speckled Trout Rodeo has not been canceled. However, the beach was closed on Friday as brown gunk and dead birds washed ashore. The most important festival is Tarpon Rodeo, which brings in 100,000 tourists each July to the 1,500 resident town. Speckled Trout Rodeo's Joyce Sevin explained that deepwater, marsh, and surf fishing would be impossible, but limited departures may be possible from Grand Isle's three marinas. "It's kind of a wait and see game," Sevin said. A woman from the city's

tourism office complained that clean-up has been very slow because of red tape. Without tourism, Grand Isle faces a long and painful summer. National Guard worked through the night in early May to protect Grand Isle It was not enough. Dead birds and oil washed ashore by mid May Now begins an interminable cleanup effort I m a g e : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ka renapricot/4627686692/ Join the conversation about this story »

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The coming days South Korea sets out its response to the sinking of the Cheonan May 23rd 2010 | From The Economist online •President Lee Myung-bak of

South Korea is expected to refer North Korea to the UN Security Council for its part in the sinking of the Cheonan, a South Korean warship. 46 sailors died in the incident, which took place in March. South Korea may also ban ships from the North from WEEK page 39

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its waters. It needs to balance a desire for redress against the unpredictability of Kim Jong Il, North Korea's leader. Mr Kim has already threatened war if further sanctions are imposed on North Korea. • THE corruption and squabbling of the Czech Republic’s political class has encouraged several new parties to attempt to capitalise on popular discontent in legislative elections that begin on Friday May 28th. Some of the country’s best-known intellectuals and cultural figures are backing a non-party movement called “Replace the Politicians” that wants a big clean-out. TOP 09 is a conservative, free-market grouping that has sent voters dummy invoices showing the level of the country’s debt. Public Matters, led by Radek John, now the country’s most popular politician, could play a role in forming a new coalition. But as in previous elections, voters divide evenly between

right and left, making another weak, squabbling government consisting of one big party and some smaller fry all too likely. • AFGHANISTAN is set to convene a national peace assembly from Saturday May 29th to discuss how to persuade Taliban insurgents to take part in peace talks. The meeting, known as a jirga, will include tribal elders, provincial chiefs, legislators and other important Afghans. Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president, will use the assembly to present a draft of his plans to negotiate with the Taliban, a subject that he discussed at a meeting with Barack Obama in Washington at the beginning of May. A recent Taliban assault on Bagram airbase, an American stronghold, may well be aa show of strength before the talks as much as a reaction to American plans for a big offensive in Kandahar, the insurgents’ heartland. • COLOMBIANS go the polls on Sunday May 30th to elect a

new president to replace Álvaro Uribe, the popular but termlimited incumbent. Juan Manuel Santos, who claims to be Mr Uribe’s heir, seemed a shoo-in last month until the emergence of Antanas Mockus. His Green Party has few seats in Congress but he has surged in opinion polls to draw neck-and-neck with Mr Santos and could well win in the event of a run-off. Mr Mockus combines a centrist appeal with a reputation for honesty, and has made a stand against corruption. Readers' comments The Economist welcomes your views. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Penelope, Salma, and Diane at Cannes StarStudded Closing Night! Molly (PopSugar) Submitted at 5/24/2010 8:00:00 AM

Diane Kruger looked heavenly in hot pink, which contrasted with Kirsten Dunst in bright blue at last night's Cannes closing ceremony event. Salma Hayek was in yet another glamorous gown after showing off quite the collection from the first red carpet to the final one. Kate Beckinsale's duty as a juror also came to a close with their annual award presentation where the Palme d'Or and other accolades are handed out. This gorgeous group of women are regulars at this year's festival where the fashion has been so fun to watch. There have also been some amazing photo ops in the picturesque setting, which always provides for some of the most beautiful A-list moments. A film from Thailand, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives won the coveted Palme d'Or and Javier Bardem was named Best Actor for his work in Biutiful, an award he shared with Elio Germano from Italy. Diane presented to both Javier and Elio and the two shook on stage as they accepted their joint honors. Javier's two main women - his mom and Penelope Cruz – were both in

the audience to cheer him on. Penelope skipped the posing again, but held tight to Javier as they ducked out at the end of the evening, just like at his premiere earlier in the week. Gael Garcia Bernal also took the stage as his movie Letters to Juliet had a quiet opening weekend at the box office. Another Cannes on the French Riviera is over, but it's never too early to start looking forward to next year! To see more from the closing event including Benicio Del Toro, Gael Garcia Bernal and others, just read more. View 60 Photos › Images include: Penelope Cruz, Diane Kruger, Kirsten Dunst, Gael Garcia Bernal, Javier Bardem, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Kate Beckinsale, Benicio Del Toro, Salma Hayek, Juliette Binoche, Tim Burton

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RBS' Bob Janjuah: "THIS IS AN UBER BEAR EARLY WARNING ALERT!"

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Permabear and RBS economist Bob Janjuah sent out an early warning today in his "Bob's World" newsletter. Janjuah reminds us that he called this 10% S&P sell-off back in late April in the last edition of "Bob's World" and that things are about to get a lot worse. His key points include: • "Sovereign limits and sovereign credibility concerns are not a future risk - they are HERE." • The UK and China are undergoing voluntary/preemptive tightening; one could argue it's over concerns of inflation. • "Outlook on U.S. Treasuries is bullish for at least the next 6 months." • China is in "official Bear territory." • "Europe in particular has signed off from the growth path and is now firmly placing itself in the Japan style multi-decade deflation/despair path." • "The political situation in the US is turning/will turn deeply RIGHT - the Tea Party folks

will have a huge say on how the US is run post AND into midterms." • "Policymakers are (nearly) all in, some have lost all credibility (clearly Europe currently dominates this loss of credibility right now), others are close..." The final debate from Janjuah is in regard to the Euro. He argues that for the Euro to have any hope of recovery, Greece must be put into restructuring "ASAP." If Greece is the Eurozone country that is allowed to set and control the

Reese Witherspoon finished up her first few days alongside Robert Pattinson filming Water for Elephants, and had the weekend off to see her man in LA. On Saturday, Reese and Jim Toth cheered on Deacon at his soccer game before she picked up flowers for her and Jim to bring to a friend's birthday party. She was toting her coveted brown Alexander Wang Rocco to match her casual ofthe-moment denim look. While her brother played, Ava was having her own fun with an terms of a bailout instead of a adorable but perhaps a bit responsible nation such as stubborn chocolate lab puppy Germany, the Euro will again, lucky girl if that's her new pet! undoubtedly fail. Reese was without her guy and Says Janjuah, "For now, the dressed all in black as she met Eurozone has joined the club some girlfriends yesterday currently only occupied by afternoon. Jim is virtually part Japan since the late 80s/early of the family after only a few 90s." See What Quantitative Easing Is And Why It's One Of The Biggest Risks Right Now > Join the conversation about this story »

months of dating, and apparently he and Reese are moving in together. For the moment, however, during the week she's logging in long hours with a very famous vampire instead of her real life heartthrob. To see more of Reese's weekend and Ava's puppy, just read more. View 20 Photos ›

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Existing Home Sales Blow Past Expectations Vincent Fernando, CFA (The Money Game)

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April existing home sales rose 7.6%. This amounted to an adjusted rate of 5.77 million units, which was higher than the expected existing home sales of just 5.65 million units. --WASHINGTON (May 24, 2010) – Existing-home sales rose again in April with buyers motivated by the tax credit, improving consumer confidence and favorable affordability conditions, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Existing-home sales, which are completed transactions that include single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, increased 7.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.77 million units in April from an upwardly revised 5.36 million in March, and are 22.8 percent higher than the 4.70 million-unit pace in April 2009. Monthly sales rose 7.0 percent in March. Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said the gain was

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widely anticipated. “The upswing in April existing-home sales was expected because of the tax credit inducement, and no doubt there will be some temporary fallback in the months immediately after it expires, but other factors also are supporting the market,” he said. “For people who were on the sidelines, there’s been a return of buyer confidence with stabilizing home prices, an improving economy and mortgage interest rates that

remain historically low.” ... The national median existinghome price3 for all housing types was $173,100 in April, up 4.0 percent from April 2009. Distressed homes accounted for 33 percent of sales last month, compared with 35 percent in March. See the official release here > Join the conversation about this story »

Ryan Gosling touched down at LAX on Saturday night, back from his trip to Cannes where he spent a week screening and promoting Blue Valentine. He was sporting a similar outfit to the one he wore taking off from the same airport on his way to France and in the middle we were treated to so much cute Gosling. He and his costar Michelle Williams were our dream couple of the festival with their sweet, affectionate moments that sparked rumors of romance. Their reps denied the two are dating and in the end it was a lucky auction winner, not Michelle, who got a public kiss from Mr. Gosling. Now he's

ready to return to work on his comedy with Steve Carell and get into music mode for an upcoming Dead Man's Bones show in NYC. To see more of Ryan, just read more. View 10 Photos ›

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The Spanish Economy Is About To Katie and Suri Coordinate Get Gored And Here Are The Charts for Their Sunday Shoe Shopping Adventure That Show You Why PopSugar (PopSugar)

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Spain's bailout of regional bank CajaSur has brought the threat of Spanish sovereign debt back on the agenda. The country has had to provide assistance for the regional bank at a cost of€500 million, and this is just the beginning of what could be a series of banking bailouts in Spain. Spain is already in precarious economic condition, due to a high level of sovereign debt and high rate of unemployment. It is unlikely it will be able to grow out of its debt crisis, and it is faced with austerity measures which could cripple growth for years to come. Hedgeye has the breakdown of just how bad the Spanish crisis is. They've given us permission to run their presentation. Source: Hedgeye Source: Hedgeye Source: Hedgeye

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Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise spent yesterday enjoying a mother-daughter outing in LA. They stopped by their favorite bakery Le Pain Quotidian to get chocolate croissants for Suri and a coffee for Katie before heading over to browse around the shoe department at Barney's. Katie and Suri even dressed up for the occasion in their matching purple flats. Their fun day together gave Katie a break from her frequent dance lessons, which have reportedly been causing some strife in the Holmes-Cruise household. Tom's apparently all about perfecting his fancy footwork

skills after he and Katie performed "Whatever Lola Wants", and now he's urging her to practice more so their next spin together will be flawless. To see more Katie and Suri just read more. View 20 Photos ›

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Inside Foursquare: Checking In Before the Party Started Shane Snow (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 5/23/2010 11:00:00 PM

Shane Snow has been bothering the Foursquare crew since before the startup was funded and became the internet’s darling du jour. A student at Columbia’s School of Journalism at the time, Snow was in the room during key moments in the company’s early history, and was granted more than 30 exclusive interviews

over the course of six months. This is the first installment of a three-part series chronicling Snow’s inside view of the birth of Foursquare, one of the most talked about tech companies of 2010. The top of Dennis Crowley’s toilet is home to the 176-page paperback, Twitter Wit: Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less, and a stack of snowboarding magazines, but no one is reading tonight. Cheers mingle with agonized

shouts over a backdrop of nerd rock a la Weezer and drift in from the living room where Crowley, 33-year-old cofounder of the “hip” new social network, Foursquare, prepares for his turn at the Nintendo Wii. Red and purple bogeys from Atari’s classic Space Invaders leer menacingly from their painted positions on the wall above the roughly 30 guests, who sport holiday sweaters and busily destroy their livers while watching one another compete

for the title of “Wii Ski Jump Champ.” A string of lights provides a makeshift border for the 10-foot projection of a cartoon ski ramp cast on the other wall, between a row of seven (real) snowboards and one of the oddest Christmas trees you’ll ever see. It’s Dec. 18, 2009, the night of Crowley’s annual BYOTTHOTMFT (Bring Your Own Thing To Hang On This M -F**king Tree) party. His 7-foot spruce hangs heavily with toy

robots, coasters and Pokemon, topped by a pastel blue thong. “I have no idea who brought that,” Crowley confesses. He turns to greet two new guests who’ve just staggered in from the Manhattan cold before taking his turn at the videogame. Someone hands him a pair of silver and red ski goggles — for costume’s sake — which he dons over shaggy, mediumbrown bangs before stepping INSIDE page 46

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A super-germ that’s become a lethal threat to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan may have met its match in a novel technique that kills entire bacterial colonies within hours. Today’s troops have a 9 in 10 chance of surviving their battle injuries. But wounds and amputation sites leave them vulnerable to infection, especially by Acinetobacter — an opportunistic pathogen ( somewhat-misleadingly) nicknamed “Iraqibacter” for its prevalence in war-zone medical facilities. As Wired Magazine reported in 2007, the bacteria has infected at least 700 American troops since 2003, and killed at least 7 people exposed to it in military clinics. Iraqibacter was once treated with common, easy-to-access antibiotic drugs. But in the last few years, the bacteria have developed a powerful resistance to all but one medication, called Colistin, that’s got a bit of a nasty side effect: potentially fatal kidney damage. And since the illness afflicts relatively few people, Big Pharma companies aren’t exactly lining up to develop new drugs. But a Pentagon-funded research team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, along

with small biotech firm PolyMedix, are making rapid strides toward a new line of Iraqibacter treatments — and the medications could spur the development of antibiotics that can fend off other drug-resistant ailments. “We didn’t set out to create a mechanism that could be applied to other illnesses,” Dr. Gregory Tew, the UMass scientist behind the project, told Danger Room. “But it’s an impressive and exciting bonus

that’s come of our work.” The scientists have already used the new type of antibiotics to effectively treat Staph infections, which kill thousands of Americans each year. Common antibiotics work by attaching to a specific molecule (like an enzyme) inside bacterial cells. With some minor adaptive changes, bacteria can alter their cell structure to prevent antibiotic binding, thereby becoming resistant to the drugs. Some infections even develop

“persister cells,” which stop growing when the antibiotics are administered, and then turn back on once a round of meds is completed. But Tew and co. have developed antibiotics that work from the outside to quickly destroy bacterial cells. The drugs work by poking holes in bacterial membranes, killing the cells instantly. Within a few hours, the antibiotics are able to kill off entire colonies of bacterial pathogens. And

resistance is futile: because the meds don’t enter the actual cell, it’s impossible for the bacteria to fight back via structural adaptation. The method has already proven effective in clinical trials for treating staph infections, and the Pentagon is betting it’ll be effective in combating Iraqibacter too. In 2009 alone, they doled out nearly $8 million to UMass and PolyMedix, to “study its antibiotic compounds for other biodefense applications and bacterial infections.” Right now, the group is starting animal studies of Iraqibacter antibiotics, though Tew anticipates that human application is several years off. The scientists are also involved in preliminary research on using the membrane-puncture method to address other strains of bacteria. But a means of mitigating antibiotic-resistant bacteria can’t come a moment too soon. Just last month, federal health officials warned that if resistance keeps growing, Americans could soon be living in “a post antibiotic era.” [Photo: Wired Magazine] See Also: • Darpa-funded Researchers: Tobacco vs. Viral Terror • Pentagon Virus Detector Knows You’re Sick Before You Do PENTAGON page 46

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May 24, 1883: Brooklyn Bridge Opens Keith Barry (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 5/23/2010 11:00:00 PM

1883: After 13 years of construction, the Brooklyn Bridge opens. It’s the first suspension bridge to use steel — rather than iron — cables, and the first bridge across the East River. Today it remains both an important traffic link and an iconic image of New York City. Conceived in 1867 by famed bridge designer John Augustus Roebling, it was by far the world’s longest suspension bridge, with a deck that connected Manhattan and Brooklyn suspended by cables hung from two neo-Gothic towers that pierced the skyline. Anticipating “ The Worst That Could Happen” and not precisely certain of the strength of his materials, Roebling designed the bridge to be six times stronger than it had to be. As a fail-safe, he added straight, diagonal cables to stiffen the superstructure. They make the bridge not a true suspension bridge (with vertical stringers, or “suspender” cables, hanging from huge, curved catenary cables), but a hybrid of suspension and cable-stayed design. That hybrid also gives the steel web work its characteristic — and mesmerizing — crisscross appearance. In addition to the East River,

the bridge spanned two generations of the Roebling family, as John died of tetanus in 1869 after an injury sustained while surveying the prospective site of the bridge. John’s son Washington assumed the title of chief engineer, but tragedy struck again when he became ill with “caisson disease” (severe decompression sickness, aka the bends) after rapidly exiting one of the bridge’s caissons. With John Roebling dead and his son incapacitated, it fell to

Washington’s wife, Emily Warren Roebling to supervise construction of the bridge. Though never formally trained, Emily had studied alongside her husband and began her own research after Washington became bedridden. In The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge, historian David McCullough credits Emily Roebling with saving the project: By and by it was common

gossip that hers was the great mind behind the great work and that this, the most monumental engineering triumph of the age, was actually the doing of a woman, which as a general proposition was taken in some quarters to be both preposterous and calamitous. In truth, she had by then a thorough grasp of the engineering involved. Emily rode alongside President Chester Arthur during the ceremonial opening of the bridge. Later, the Brooklyn

Bridge carried P.T. Barnum’s elephants, light rail and six lanes of automotive traffic, as well as thousands of pedestrians leaving Lower Manhattan after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The New York City Department of Transportation began a four-year, $500 million renovation of the bridge earlier this year. But it’s not for sale, no matter what that guy on the corner tells MAY page 46

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his 5-foot-9-inch, 170-pound frame onto a balance mat that triggers his character’s movement. On the wall, his cartoon alter ego poises itself at the top of the virtual incline, skis ready. Crowley leans forward, and his character whooshes down the ramp. As the lip approaches, he jumps, flails and lands. A collective “Ohhhh!” erupts from the party-goers. Crowley has scored a paltry 42 feet, putting him nearly dead last. He’s losing his own game at his own party. At age 11, the boy who would one day find himself on the cusp of tech celebrity with his own company called up Nintendo Power from his Boston home to see if he was one of the first 10 people to beat The Legend of Zelda ever. (He says the guy on the phone let him down easy, telling him that player No. 10 had called in just that day.)

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A few years later, he was enlisting his high school friends to help him write a videogame fanzine called Dystopia (which periodically enraged other fanzines with its teenage offensiveness). By the time he got his hands on Zelda Wind Waker at age 26, his girlfriend literally told him, “You need to choose between me and that game.” Dubbed “highly competitive” by his friends, Crowley loves games. He doesn’t like to lose. Foursquare is the latest in a line of social networks — websites using technology to enhance social interaction. From SixDegrees.com in the late ’90s to Friendster in ‘02, the musically inclined MySpace in ‘03 to the now privacychallenged Facebook in ‘05, online networking became an integral part of mainstream U.S. (and increasingly, world) culture.

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One year into Facebook’s 400million-user climb to the top, the microblogging social network, Twitter.com, which allows users to broadcast their status in text-message-sized updates, emerged as the newest hit networking medium. Crowley and his partner, Naveen Selvadurai, a curly haired, 27-year-old mobile programmer from Connecticut, describe Foursquare as the next evolution. Foursquare is part social city guide, part mobile friend finder. Users connect based on GPS location. Those who can make a habit of “checking in” whenever they go places can meet new people, invite friends to join up, and leave tips for others who check in later. It’s common to check in someplace and receive a tip like, “Since you’re nearby, your friend, Jacob, recommends the ‘Cookie Monster’ at Craigo’s Pizza.”

What makes it different than other GPS apps is it’s also a competitive game. A user who checks into a venue most often becomes “Mayor,” a faux status symbol that still encourages many to use the app more frequently. Users can earn an array of other digital “badges” for various accomplishments, like checking out new places or events. For some, collecting badges becomes an addictive incentive to keep using the app. Pages: 1 2 3 View All Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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For the last three years Turkey has been gripped by an extraordinary series of legal Erupts, Changes World … General Election. Available proceedings revolving around an Again tools: PDF Newspaper, Full alleged conspiracy to destabilize • Nov. 18, 1883: Railroad Time Text RSS, Term Extraction. and eventually topple the country’s conservative-Islamist Goes Coast to Coast government. Prosecutors, • May 24, 1935: Reds Nip Phils supported by leading members as Night Baseball Comes to the of the governing Justice and Major Leagues Development Party (AKP), have accused a large number of Five Filters featured article: military officers and their The Art of Looking Prime supposed civilian accomplices Ministerial - The 2010 UK TURKEY’S page 47

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with membership in a secret network, dubbed the “Ergenekon terror organization” after an ancient Turkish myth, and charged them with crimes ranging from murder and bombings to intimidation of religious minorities and coup plots. The cases have ensnared hundreds of current and retired military officers, journalists, academics, and lawyers—as well as a chief prosecutor and even a former mayor of Istanbul. Many are being kept in jail for months pending trial. While some of the trials have started, none has been concluded and there has yet to be a single conviction. To many observers it looks as if a popular, democratic regime is finally wresting itself free from the tight grip of the army and hard-line secularists, and, for the first time, is bringing the old guard to account for its transgressions. Traditionally, the military has set the boundaries of political life in Turkey. And the army’s high command has assumed responsibility for reining in political groups that it feels stray too far from secularism. On several occasions it has even removed from office governments that it felt were too weak in the face of domestic discord. But if you look closer at the details of these cases and the thousands of pages of indictments produced by the prosecutors, a much uglier

reality begins to emerge. What lies behind the trials is an apparent effort to discredit the government’s opponents on the basis of the flimsiest evidence and often, far worse, by framing them with planted evidence and forged documents. While a handful of the hundreds who have been accused may be guilty of some wrongdoing, the conduct of many of the prosecutors leaves little doubt that they are pursuing a political agenda, instead of seeking to uncover actual crimes and identify true culprits. Deception at such a scale would be unimaginable without at least the implicit cooperation of members of the government. We have come to this verdict reluctantly and only after observing at close range the proceedings in one of the most serious cases to date. In January, a Turkish daily published what were alleged to be secret military documents that described in gory detail preparations for a military coup in 2002-2003, with the ominous code-name Sledgehammer. The alleged leader of this plot, retired four-star general Çetin Doan, and scores of other officers were arrested in February and placed under custody. We can’t pretend to look at this from a distance; we are the daughter and son-in-law of Çetin Doan. We have been

horrified by the conduct of the judiciary, the media, government officials, and even the country’s pre-eminent scientific body in the face of what is evidently forged evidence. When we then turned to the other cases, we found a similar pattern of deception and disinformation pervading those as well. What we have learned has forced us to reconsider our once mostly benign view of the legal process in Turkey and of the role of the AKP government in it. The various Ergenekon cases seem to follow a similar pattern. The key evidence is typically produced by anonymous informants who describe themselves as patriots who have become outraged by the malicious activities of those with whom they have served. These tipsters provide incredibly detailed information about the nature of the crimes and the individuals who have supposedly committed them. They point to the location of the incriminating evidence—for example, the specific site where a cache of weaponry is buried—and, as in the Sledgehammer case, provide the “originals” of secret documents detailing criminal activities. These revelations are followed by highly publicized arrests, selective leaks to the media about the “evidence,” and a campaign by the pro-

government media to discredit the suspects and whip up public frenzy about the case. Members of the AKP party express outrage about the activities that have come to light and offer support for the prosecutions. The defendants meanwhile vehemently deny the charges, any connection to the evidence to which they have been linked, and often even knowledge of each other. Lawyers’ requests for revoking the detention status of suspects pending trial are typically rejected by judges after perfunctory examination of the details of the case. After several months, the prosecutors produce mammoth indictments—some running into thousands of pages without appendices. Much space in the indictments is taken up by irrelevant material unrelated to the specific charges, such as extensive extracts from tapped but routine phone conversations. Few observers have scrutinized these indictments closely. Indeed, they are very difficult to make sense of given their length and convoluted logic. The most thorough analysis to date has been undertaken by Gareth H. Jenkins, a British journalist associated with John Hopkins’s School of Advanced International Studies. His verdict on the first two indictments applies equally well to the rest: “The indictments are so full of contradictions, rumors,

speculation, misinformation, illogicalities, absurdities and untruths that they are not even internally consistent or coherent.”(For his troubles, Jenkins has been subjected to a smear campaign by the Islamist media in Turkey and personal attacks on jihadist web sites.) The indictments produce little new evidence beyond what the anonymous informants have already provided. No material evidence such as fingerprints, eyewitness accounts, or other real corroborating evidence links the defendants to the alleged crimes. Questioning of the suspects yields only denials, no confessions. Many are charged with membership in the Ergenekon terror network simply for having expressed nationalist or anti-AKP views. Prosecutors suspend all disbelief when it comes to the credibility of the informants. The fact that an informant’s letter and the incriminating document he has supplied come from two different printers is treated as convincing evidence that the informant is credible and the document authentic. At the same time, prosecutors take incredible leaps of faith in asserting the culpability of the defendants. For instance, the presence in a defendant’s phone book of a phone number belonging to a defendant in TURKEY’S page 48

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another case is taken as corroborating evidence that the two are linked in a criminal conspiracy, even though the conspiracy is yet to be established in a court of law and neither defendant has been found guilty of anything as yet. What is most alarming is that in at least some of the cases it is clear that the prosecutors have had the relevant documents in hand before the incriminating evidence was supposed to have come to light. For example, an anonymous tip led the police to seize a DVD from a retired naval major’s house in April 2009. The initial police report found nothing suspicious on the DVD, but a subsequent technical analysis uncovered a hidden file with details of a plan to intimidate non-Muslim minorities through bombings and assassinations. The major argued that the file had been planted after the DVD was seized. Unaccountably, the prosecutors are on record questioning another defendant on this hidden file days before the technical analysis was conducted and the file was “discovered.” This suggests that in these cases the prosecutors are not merely playing along; they are in on the deception. The Sledgehammer case is particularly instructive because the forgery is so blatant: In January, the anti-military Turkish daily Taraf received

several CDs and voice recordings, as well as a trunk full of documents, from an anonymous informer who identified himself as a retired officer who had served under Doan during 2002-2003. The recordings are from the proceedings of a routine war simulation workshop held under Doan’s command in March 2003. The simulation dealt, in part, with the army’s response to a future domestic fundamentalist uprising, which was assumed to have been instigated as a consequence of an increase in military tensions with Greece. These recordings are genuine and were made under Doan’s orders at the time. They do not refer to a coup or any other criminal activities. Nor do they contain anything more sinister than the occasional antagonism on the part of the officers present towards Islamist groups perceived to be hostile to secularism. But along with these voice recordings, the documents delivered to Taraf contained details of an elaborate operation, code-named Sledgehammer, to destabilize the country and topple the newly elected AKP government. The plans included the bombings of two Istanbul mosques during Friday prayers and the downing of a Turkish jet along with names of cabinet members to be installed following the coup, a detailed

government program, a list of journalists to be arrested, and much else. Taraf claimed that the March 2003 workshop was a dress rehearsal for the coup, even though none of the couprelated activities were mentioned during the workshop (and some were actually scheduled to take place before the workshop). Taraf and other media had a field day with these charges. But within days evidence began to surface that threw significant doubt on the authenticity of the Sledgehammer coup documents. For one thing, it became clear that these plans could not have been prepared in 2002-2003 as claimed. The documents contain verbatim extracts from a lecture first delivered in 2005, refer to an organization founded in 2006, and criticize the AKP government for activities that it did not undertake until many years later. (The documents require us to believe that the coup plans were hatched literally days after the first AKP government took office.) Equally telling are the mistakes made in military usage, strongly suggesting that the documents were produced outside the military. The documents refer to a non-existent military branch, and are replete with numbering and style that don’t conform to military format. There are glaring mistakes and inconsistencies in the plans. For

example, the head of the war academy in Istanbul is said to have plotted to carry out operations out of bases in the central and eastern parts of the country, bases that clearly do not lie under his chain of command. (See here for a summary of these and other problems with the evidence in the Sledgehammer case.) The prosecutors and the judges who have ruled on this matter so far have shown little interest in such discrepancies. Nor have they questioned the motives of the supposedly retired officer who showed up out of the blue in Taraf’s offices. How might he have obtained all these documents spanning several different military branches, if they are really authentic? Why did he keep them for seven years? And why did he deliver them to a newspaper rather than the authorities? One possible answer to the last question is that it ensured a public furor over the alleged coup and its plotters and provided cover for the prosecutors’ subsequent conduct. When Doan and the others were questioned before their detention, the prosecutors acted as if they were following a script rather than trying to shed light on the matter. They showed no interest in the explanations offered by the defendants and had no followup questions beyond the written

ones that they had before them. They made it virtually impossible for the accused to prepare a proper defense by denying them access to the incriminating documents the suspects were supposed to have written themselves. They selectively leaked to the media material that the accused and their lawyers were prevented from seeing. And they insisted on pre-trial detention for Doan and many of the other senior officers even though there was little risk that they would flee or have an opportunity to tamper with the evidence. A key weapon in the hands of the prosecutors was a technical report prepared by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), which is said to have authenticated the CDs delivered to Taraf. The report was used by the prosecutors to obtain the initial arrest warrants for the accused and successfully prevent appeals against their detention. The report was kept secret for almost three months, but its apparently conclusive determination became a staple of media reports on the culpability of Doan and the other suspects. When the TUBITAK report was finally released, it turned out to be a superficial job that had not even attempted to TURKEY’S page 49

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establish the CDs’ authenticity. Most critically, it entirely overlooked the ease with which the date and author information on them could have been altered and manipulated, not including a single mention of this possibility in the report. Even though its carefully worded conclusion fell short of saying that the CDs were authentic, it was designed to leave the clear impression that they were. A computer forensic expert with years of experience in U.S. law enforcement who was shown the report said: “It is in the best case amateurish, in the middle case irresponsible, and in the worst case malicious.” It is not the first time that TUBITAK has been guilty of toeing the line in cases related to Ergenekon. Close observers of TUBITAK note that the organization has changed significantly since AKP appointees have taken it over. Its current director was appointed by the government in 2004, over the protests of preexisting members of the scientific council, who resigned en masse. The nature of the change is illustrated by a wellpublicized instance of censorship that took place in 2009. An issue of TUBITAK’s scientific journal commemorating Darwin’s 200th birthday and celebrating the theory of natural selection on its cover was pulled at the last

moment prior to publication. The editor of the journal was dismissed for “exceeding her duties.” Prime minister Tayyip Erdoan, the leader of the AKP, openly supports the prosecutions and has made statements critical of the accused. Members of his party and government have left no doubt that they presume the suspects to be guilty as charged. Their comments have greatly contributed to the general climate which makes it difficult for open-minded prosecutors and judges to act in a nonprejudicial manner. A cabinet minister has gone so far as to accuse a judge that issued a release order in favor of the Sledgehammer suspects of being a member of the same criminal gang. (The order was quickly reversed by other judges following an intense media campaign.) Confronted with evidence of forgery and setups, supporters of the government blame an internal power struggle within the military and its civilian allies. But this explanation makes little sense in light of how these cases play out. It fails to account for the egregious behavior of the police, prosecutors, and other institutions like TUBITAK. It is difficult to see how anyone associated with the army stands to gain from a series of cases that has done irreparable

damage to the military’s political power and prestige. Whether members of the AKP cooperate actively or not with other Islamist groups (principally supporters of Fethullah Gülen) in the dirty tricks being used to discredit the old guard, it is clear that they perceive the process as beneficial to their cause. For years, they have felt themselves persecuted by the military and hard-line secularists. They have been traumatized by the constant threat that their party might be closed—a frequent occurrence in the past for parties suspected of violating the strict secular code of the old guard. They have faced hostility from the constitutional court and other high courts. Now that they have managed to wrest control of the police force, large parts of the media, critical segments of the judiciary, and many other state institutions, these groups feel it is their time for retribution. As one AKP founding member put it, “For years, they blacklisted us. Now it’s our turn.” Indeed, for many among them, this is a battle for survival: either they will win and eliminate the others, or the others will win and they will perish. But what about democracy, the rule of law, and human rights? The AKP’s great appeal to the liberal intelligentsia and to Turkey’s friends in the Western

world was that it stood for a tolerant, moderate, and truly democratic brand of Islamic conservatism—a political movement much more suited to mainstream Turkish values and the modern world than the strict, hard-line secularism of the old guard. The fact that the AKP worked harder than any other political party to win Turkey membership in the EU reinforced these views and allayed concerns that it may backslide into authoritarianism. But its complicity in the Ergenekon and Sledgehammer cases reveals the darker side of political Islam in Turkey. It shows how misleading the standard narrative of democracy’s victory over military tutelage is. Worse still, with the EU itself in tatters and membership in the EU an even more distant dream, there is now less that tethers Turkey to democracy. With the old guard weakened, the AKP has less reason to want democracy and the rule of law. None of this is an argument for continued military domination of Turkish politics. Neither is it an argument for not going after the shadowy, clandestine networks with roots in the military that appear to have been involved in quite a few misdeeds. Kurdish sympathizers or suspected religious reactionaries have been treated harshly by the military and their

civilian extensions, and have often been subject to dirty tricks themselves. But beyond the gross miscarriage of justice, the problem with today’s judicial manipulation is that it makes it all the more difficult, if not impossible, for the real crimes to be uncovered and prosecuted. Once the deception is widely exposed, it is not just the AKP government and the media that will take the hit. The judiciary will remain crippled for years, shorn of credibility. To prevent this nightmare scenario, three things need to happen. First, Turkish liberals need to wake up to the reality of the dirty war being waged against the old guard and stand up for the rule of law and human rights. Second, Turkey’s friends abroad should be prepared to be blunt with Erdoan, and overcome their fear of losing their leverage over him; a nondemocratic government is not worth propping up. Most importantly, Erdoan himself and his close allies need to understand that this dirty war will come back to haunt them once the Ergenekon and other trials unravel. The only beneficiaries will be the extremists, who will be ready to exploit the weakened state of the liberals and the moderate Islamists alike. TURKEY’S page 52

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Morning Bell: The Buck Stops Nowhere Conn Carroll (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.)

be passing off responsibility for securing our nation’s borders to an unaccountable commission of Submitted at 5/24/2010 8:29:18 AM experts? How is any of this According to best estimates, the consistent with our nation’s collapsed Deepwater Horizon First Principles or the United oil rig is pumping about 210,000 States Constitution? It’s not. gallons of oil into the Gulf of The authors of our Constitution Mexico every day. But don’t never meant to create a federal worry, President Barack Obama government with the power to has appointed an “independent” f o r c e y o u t o b u y h e a l t h commission to investigate the insurance, let alone one where it spill. Our federal government would be unelected bureaucrats will post an estimated$1.5 who determine what type of trillion budget deficit this year, health insurance you could buy. and our debt is projected to Our Founding Fathers equal 140 percent of gross s p e c i f i c a l l y c r e a t e d a domestic product within two C o n s t i t u t i o n d i v i d i n g t h e decades. But don’t worry, l e g i s l a t i v e , e x e c u t i v e a n d President Obama has appointed judicial functions of government a debt commission to solve the into three branches so that the problem. Our nation’s southern separation of these powers border has degenerated into a would limit the size and scope violent, lawless and lethal zone. of the federal government. But don’t worry, Congress Americans would know who to w a n t s t o e m p o w e r a n e w punish for bad policies at the commission to control the ballot box because it would be problem. And millions of clear who was responsible for Americans don’t know whether creating and enforcing them. or not their health plan will be But that is very obviously not exempted from Obamacare. But the system we have today. Our d o n ’ t w o r r y , f a c e l e s s federal government has bureaucrats at the Department of d e v o l v e d into an Health and Human Services are incomprehensible mish-mash of a l r e a d y h a r d a t w o r k alphabet soup government determining whether or not you agencies and commissions that will be allowed to keep your no one American could possibly current health insurance. understand. Why is our country Is this any way to run a in this state? What happened? country? Should the President of The Progressive movement the United States be passing off happened. Hillsdale College responsibility to “independent” Associate Professor of Political commissions? Should Congress S c i e n c e R o n a l d P e s t r i t t o

explains: For the American pioneers of the administrative state–the Progressives of the late 19th and early 20th centuries–this older, limited understanding of government stood in the way of the policy aims they believed the state ought to pursue in a world that had undergone significant evolution since the time of the Founding. They believed that the role of government, contrary to the perceived ahistorical notion of Founding-era liberalism, ought to adjust continually to meet the new demands of new ages. As Woodrow Wilson wrote in The State, “Government does now whatever experience permits or the times demand.” … It is the Progressives’ desire to free bureaucratic agencies from the confines of politics and the law that allows us to trace the origins of the administrative state to their political thought. The idea of separating politics and administration–of grounding a significant portion of government not on the basis of popular consent but on expertise–was a fundamental aim of American Progressivism and explains the Progressives’ fierce assault on the Founders’ separation-of-powers constitutionalism. It was introduced into the United States by Progressive reformers who had themselves learned the

principle from what was then the “cutting edge” theory of history and the state developed in 19th century Germany. President Barack Obama, Majority Leader Harry Reid (DNV) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) are the modern heirs of the Progressive campaign to eviscerate the rule-of-law-based limited government envisioned by the U.S. Constitution and replace it with an expert-ruled European welfare state. Everything this regime has done since assuming power (TARP, the Presidential Task Force on Autos, Obamacare, EPA global warming regulations) empowers unaccountable expert committees and commissions. Commenting on Congress’ new immigration commission, Rutgers University political science professor Ross Baker told The Washington Post: “It’s the ultimate expression for the need for political cover.” Enough cover. It’s time Washington is held accountable. Quick Hits: • According to Rasmussen Reports, 72% of likely voters are not confident that Congress knows what it’s doing when it comes to addressing current economic problems. • According to a new study of Obamacare by the nation’s largest employee benefit consulting company, about onethird of employers will face employer mandate tax penalties

under the new law. • Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement John Morton said the Obama administration will not necessarily enforce our nation’s immigration laws when illegal immigrants are referred to them by Arizona authorities. • Since President Obama announced a moratorium on permits for new offshore drilling oil and a halt on environmental waivers, at least seven new permits for drilling and five environmental waivers have been granted. • Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) confirmed on Meet the Press that the Obama administration did offer him a another job if he agreed to exit the Pennsylvania Senate race. Tags: experts, Morning Bell, progressive movement, Progressivism, seperation of powers, U.S. Constitution You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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A top lawmaker on the House intelligence committee said Sunday the Obama administration is withholding information about the botched Times Square bombing from Congress, continuing a pattern in which Capitol Hill isn't getting the information it needs to conduct oversight. Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the panel's ranking Republican, said he agrees with the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate intelligence committee, who last week sent a letter to the White House accusing the administration of putting national security in jeopardy by failing to keep lawmakers apprised of the probe into suspect Faisal Shahzad. "Having to fight over access to counterterrorism information is not productive and ultimately makes us less secure," wrote Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Dianne Feinstein and Vice Chairman Christopher S. Bond in a letter to President Obama on Thursday, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times. The California Democrat and Missouri Republican said the lack of information has "caused serious friction in the

relationship of the committee, on both sides of the aisle, and the executive branch." Mr. Hoekstra said the lack of information prevents Congress from evaluating whether the government is adequately prepared to thwart future attacks. "One of these days there will be an attack, it will be successful, and then people will want to know what was done and why weren't things done to stop it, and it will all be on the heads of this administration because they ran it and they didn't involve Congress in the process," he said. "On the most recent terrorist attacks they've given us no opportunity, no invitation to work with them, to enhance or modify our intelligence tools … and that we did everything we could to try to get them to work and be more open about it." In the letter, the senators say U.S. intelligence agencies repeatedly refused to provide relevant information on the Times Square case that would allow the committee to conduct oversight without hampering the ongoing investigation. Senate intelligence staffers were told that the Department of Justice had instructed the agencies not to convey information on the Times Square plot without its approval, they said. The White House wouldn't

comment on the charges, but a spokesman for the Justice Department said the department reached out to Congress "shortly after" the May 1 incident, providing information by phone and e-mail beginning on May 3. Spokesman Dean Boyd said officials from the FBI, Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism Center provided a classified briefing to members of the House intelligence panel on May 6 and briefed their Senate counterparts on May 11. He also said the Justice Department did not tell intelligence officials not to cooperate with lawmakers. "The Justice Department did not order anyone in the intelligence community to withhold information from the Senate intelligence committee in connection with the attempted bombing," Mr. Boyd said. "In fact, when the Justice Department was notified by certain intelligence agencies that they were planning to make calls to the House and Senate intelligence committees, the Justice Department encouraged those agencies to do so." A spokeswoman for Rep. Silvestre Reyes, head of the House intelligence panel, said the Texas Democrat — the only one of his counterparts not to sign — was generally "pleased at the detailed level and the

timeliness of the briefing, given we were briefed less than 72 hours after Shahzad's arrest." Spokeswoman Courtney Littig said Mr. Reyes proposed some "minor edits" but did not sign on to the letter after the senators would not make them. Congressional oversight of intelligence matters has long been a thorny issue in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. In the case of the failed Times Square bombing attempt, in which a Pakistani native is accused of trying to detonate a sport utility vehicle, the senators said the Obama administration has refused to provide the panel with FBI reports widely circulated in the intelligence community. The senators said the "great majority" of their information came through sometimes-mistaken public press conferences and media accounts. Mr. Boyd said Justice is "aware that in cases like this there is often a tension between the need to keep the appropriate Hill committees informed and the need to protect the integrity of the investigation and prosecution." But, Mr. Hoekstra countered: "It's a joke when the administration says 'well, Justice, they're fully cooperating and they're telling everybody

else to cooperate' but then they put handcuffs on them about what they can tell and actually share with us." Dissatisfaction with the administration on oversight matters goes beyond the intelligence panels. Last month, Sens. Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins, the top members of the Senate panel on homeland security, issued the administration its first congressional subpoenas over the Fort Hood shootings in Texas. Mr. Hoekstra argued that that case has documents — such as Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan's emails — that the administration could share with lawmakers without jeopardizing the investigation. "They've got enough information to convict Hasan and probably send him to jail for the rest of his life; he killed 13 Americans in front of what, 100 people," Mr. Hoekstra said. © Copyright 2010 The Washington Times, LLC Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Report: Paula Abdul to Return to Judges Table on CBS' Got to Dance

Abdul, who has reportedly fielded numerous offers for new gigs since her departure from American Idol last year, will serve as lead judge, executive producer, creative partner,

mentor and coach on the show, according to the Reporter. CBS has Got to Dance: Network orders dancecompetition series CBS is expected to make an official announcement Monday. The network, which announced its fall schedule last week, plans to debut the series at midseason, perhaps going against a Simon Cowell-less Idol. Will you be glad to see Abdul back in prime time? Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Who Won Celebrity Apprentice? (TVGuide.com: Breaking News)

every one of the fired contestants on stage. Talking with Trump, Michaels Submitted at 5/23/2010 10:15:00 PM said his doctors advised him not Bret Michaels and Holly Peete to travel to New York for the SPOILER ALERT: The finale. "It's been a rough go, but following story reveals the I'm glad I'm here," he said. winner of Celebrity Apprentice. Speaking about Michaels' After 10 challenges and 12 illness, Robinson Peete other celebrity contestants, the acknowledged the great public season finale of Celebrity support for her opponent (which Apprentice boiled down to Bret she dubbed "Michaels mania") Michaels and Holly Robinson and said that even her 5-year-old Peete. son was rooting for Michaels to Check out photos from win. Celebrity Apprentice Michaels joked about getting The live two-hour season finale the sympathy vote, saying, "I'll was especially momentous for finale. penultimate episode. With the take a vote any way I can get it" Michaels, who, since filming the Bret Michaels suffers stroke; help of fired contestants Darryl and argued he didn't travel this reality show, suffered a brain has hole in heart S t r a w b e r r y a n d S u m m e r far (from Arizona) to lose. hemorrhage April 22. Michaels The finale was emotional for Sanders, Michaels launched the In the end, Donald Trump was in critical condition for a both Michaels and Robinson Trop-A-Rocka flavor of Diet chose Michaels to become his week after the hemorrhage Peete because of their respective Snapple. Robinson Peete created latest apprentice â&#x20AC;&#x201D; meaning before his release from the charities. Michaels suffers from Compassionberry tea with $ 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 w i l l g o t o t h e hospital in early May. Type 1 diabetes and played for recently fired contestants Curtis American Diabetes Association. The 47-year-old rocker suffered t h e A m e r i c a n D i a b e t e s Stone and Maria Kanellis. Just before announcing his another setback May 20 when Association. Robinson Peete On the live part of Sunday's decision, Trump said Snapple he was hospitalized with a raised money for her foundation, finale, Michaels walked with a had matched the grand prize so stroke. Michaels' appearance on HollyRod, which helps those limp and appeared to have slight $ 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 w i l l a l s o g o t o NBC's Celebrity Apprentice whose quality of life has been drooping on the left side of his H o l l y R o d . finale was his second since his d i m i n i s h e d b y d i s e a s e o r face (which earlier this week, Do you think the right person brain hemorrhage and his first disorder. Robinson Peete's 12- h i s r e p a t t r i b u t e d t o t h e won Celebrity Apprentice? since his subsequent stroke. But year-old son, RJ, suffers from hemorrhage as well as his Five Filters featured article: despite his t h r e e autism. medications). But Michaels was The Art of Looking Prime hospitalizations, including an Michaels and Robinson Peete back to his old self, as he Ministerial - The 2010 UK emergency appendectomy April began the final challenge, to bumped his fists against his General Election. Available 12, Michaels was determined to create and market a new flavor chest to thank the crowd and tools: PDF Newspaper, Full make it to New York for the live of Snapple Iced Tea, in the walked over to personally thank Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Brittany Murphy's Husband Found Dead (TVGuide.com: Breaking News) Submitted at 5/24/2010 7:42:00 AM

Simon Monjack and Brittany Murphy The husband of actress Brittany Murphy was found dead in his Hollywood Hills home just five months after Murphy's death, according to the Los Angeles Times. Check out photos of Murphy's roles British screenwriter Simon Monjack, 39, died at his home on Sunday, according to Los Angeles Police Sgt. Louie Lozano. The cause of death is unknown. BRITTANY page 55

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"We have detectives at scene," Lozano told the Times. "They are conducting their investigation. Once we have further information, we will provide it." Actress Brittany Murphy dead at 32 The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a 911 call for an "unspecified medical aid request" Sunday night, according to spokesman Brian Humphrey. Fire Department workers provided medical attention, but Monjack was pronounced dead late Sunday at the Hollywood police station, police told the Times. Murphy died Dec. 20 at age 32 after collapsing in her bathroom. Authorities recovered a large

amount of prescription drugs at Murphy's home, some of which were prescribed to her mother, Sharon, and Monjack, according to the autopsy report. Monjack and Sharon Murphy previously denied that Murphy abused illegal drugs. In February, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office ruled Murphy's death accidental and said it was caused by pneumonia with multiple drug intoxication and anemia as contributing factors. An autopsy later that month showed the 32-year-old actress had no signs of illegal drug use at the time of her death. Autopsy: No illegal drugs found in Brittany Murphy Monjack's credits include the

film Factory Girl starring Sienna Miller and Two Days, Nine Lives. Murphy was best known for her roles in Clueless, Girl, Interrupted, Don't Say a Word, and 8 Mile. She also lent her voice to the show King of the Hill for 12 years as Luanne Platter. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

'The Simpsons' - 'Judge Me Tender' Recap (Season Finale) Sharon Knolle (TV Squad) Submitted at 5/24/2010 3:37:00 AM

Filed under: Recaps, Finales(S21E23) On The Simpsons' season finale. Moe's cruel streak makes him a natural for judging competitions of all kinds and before you know it, he's the next Simon Cowell. But hey, were you even watching Fox tonight? In the spirit of all things 'Lost,' we must tell you that Bart Simpson twist: "End of 'Lost'. It was all has revealed, via chalkboard 'THE page 56 message, the big series-ending

Glee Gets Early Season 3 Pick-Up (TVGuide.com: Breaking News) Submitted at 5/23/2010 6:01:00 PM

Glee Good news, Glee ks: Fox already has ordered a third season of Glee, TVGuide.com has confirmed. The freshman series — starring Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele— is the No. 1 new scripted series among 18-to -49-year-olds and has averaged 9.4 million total viewers.

Fall TV Scorecard: Which shows are returning? Which aren't? "In just one year, Glee has transcended the television landscape and emerged as a global pop-culture phenomenon," Peter Rice, Fox networks' entertainment chairman, said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly. Fall TV: What's on when? Check out our schedule guide Series creator Ryan Murphy also released statement to EW

about the musical dramedy's success: "It's been a whirlwind year — from shooting the pilot to performing at the White

House to the concert tour that began last week — and yet we all feel like we've just begun this amazing musical journey. We

think our Glee ks worldwide are going to love what we'll have in store for them in seasons two and three." Glee, which wraps up its first season June 8, will resume on Tuesday nights next fall. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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'Treme' - 'Smoke My Peace Pipe' Recap Sandie Angulo Chen (TV Squad) Submitted at 5/24/2010 3:21:00 AM

How to Throw a '24' Series Finale Party Kim Potts (TV Squad)

and that funky yellow-y/orangey color (what the Crayola folks Submitted at 5/24/2010 3:01:00 AM call "Sunglow") are the colors Filed under: Features, Finales we most associate with the Sure, 'Lost' is getting all the show. series finale love -- and viewing 2. Guns, obviously, have been a party planning -- this week, but big part of '24' action for all the'24' devoted among us want eight seasons. So, even though to celebrate the end of our fave Jack Bauer and his CTU-ers TV drama, too. And though don't seem to ever engage in b i d d i n g J a c k B a u e r a n d mundane activities like eating or company adieu, soiree style, drinking or going to the little isn't as simple as slapping the federal agent's room, surely Dharma logo on everything, they'd approve of this use of h e r e a r e 2 4 ( o f c o u r s e ) weaponry: Serve beverages in suggestions for arranging a fun toy water guns. '24' finale festivity. Permalink| Email this| Linking 1. Need a color scheme for your Blogs| Comments '24' theme party? Black, white

Filed under: Recaps( S01E07) Sorry this is a little late, folks, but I -- like many of you, I imagine -- had to catch'Treme' on the DVR after watching the series finale of'Lost.' But I managed to get off the proverbial Island and back to New Orleans to savor this new, emotionally charged episode. It's almost Mardi Gras, and our favorite NOLA residents are taking stands, making changes, and facing death. Although the show opens on a hopeful note for LaDonna and her mother in their season-long

quest to find Daymo, by the end of the episode hope is abandoned and Daymo -- the real David Maurice Brooks -- is finally found, dead, in a makeshift morgue made out of rows of air-conditioned trailers. The scene at the trailer-park morgue is one of the highlights

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the dog's dream. Watch us." (And before you comment angrily, no, that is not a real spoiler.) Moe ending up as the fifth'American Idol' judge is a solid premise that starts off well but fizzles before the closing credits. Or, to quote the Simpsons' eerily accurate take on Randy Jackson(who appears here as himself, as do all the 'Idol' judges); "Dawg, I was feelin' it,

but then it got a little pitchy." That's actually doing their take on Randy a disservice, since I left out that the song he is critiquing is 'Happy Birthday' and he finishes by saying that the "to you" was "da bomb!" Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

Sundays With Seth: Cleveland Strikes Back Jason Hughes (TV Squad) Submitted at 5/24/2010 4:20:00 AM

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hardcore fans of 'Family Guy' had probably already seen tonight's season finale hour-long spoof of 'The Empire Strikes Back.' Back in 2007, the series kicked off its sixth season with 'Blue Harvest,' an almost sceneby-scene parody of the original 'Star Wars.' This time around, the same attention to detail went into the making of 'Something, Something, Something Dark Side.' Next to that, the events of 'The Cleveland Show' looked incredibly tame. However, as an ending for its first season, the

finale did a great job of wrapping the season up with a lot of love, and even four nods to its father series, 'Family Guy.' The premise had Cleveland's mother and father reuniting, to Cleveland's horror. A subplot involved the reading of Cleveland's ex-wife Loretta's will, where Cleveland was even more horrified to find who she left everything to. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

'Dancing with the Stars' - Who will win Season 10? Michael Pascua (TV Squad) Submitted at 5/24/2010 5:16:00 AM

Filed under: Features, Finales The tenth season of'Dancing with the Stars' has produced some very strong competition after we lost Buzz Aldrin and Kate Gosselin. While I thought the final three would probably be Evan, Nicole and Pamela Anderson, Erin Andrews has proven to be one of the strongest dancers this season. The final three couples have all gotten 10s from the judges, but Erin has yet to get a perfect 30. Last week's score of 29 sets her up to compete right next to Evan

and Nicole. All three couples will have a freestyle, a dance-off, a dance re -do and one final dance. For the freestyle, if the couples stray away from doing a hip-hop, disco or freaky doll routine, the performance should determine

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Buckle up: Click It or Ticket campaign begins Consumer Reports Shopping Blog (Consumer Reports) Submitted at 5/24/2010 1:59:59 AM

Buckle up: Click It or Ticket campaign begins Seat belt use among Americans is at its highest level ever—84 percent. While that is good news, there is still that other 16 percent who need to get the message to buckle up. May 24 through June 5 is the Department of Transportation’s annual "Click It or Ticket" mobilization campaign aimed at delivering the safety message

through a law enforcement blitz and crackdown around the country. Police will be out in force and at check points to make sure drivers and passengers are following their state’s seat belt laws. A number of states have a usage rate below 70 percent, including Massachusetts, Wyoming, and New Hampshire, which is the only state without any seat belt law. Currently, 19 states do not have a primary law, which allows drivers to be pulled over for failing to wear a seat belt. Four of those states

have a primary law only for teenagers and younger. The worst offenders of the seat belt law are men aged 18 to 34. The seat belt is considered by many to be the most important automotive safety invention, and it is simple to use. Don’t wait

for a campaign to buckle up, just do it now and make it a habit.— Liza Barth Also read: Buckle up in all seats: Using rear seat belts Video: Embracing seat belt use Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences

Kids and veggies? How to prime their palates Artemis Dibenedetto (Consumer Reports) Submitted at 5/24/2010 1:59:59 AM

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Kids and veggies? How to prime their palates I don’t do appetizers. The whole concept of eating before eating has always mystified me. I’ll admit I also hate the idea of my family blithely noshing away while I’m still flying around trying to get dinner on the table. So when my kids come bounding into the kitchen for snacks while I’m in the middle of preparing dinner, they’re usually sent right back out with a dire “you can wait!” But now I’m re-thinking the whole thing. In the May issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers performed an experiment with preschoolers where they were given a portion of raw carrots before they were given lunch. The researchers served the carrots, waited ten minutes, and then served a lunch of pasta, broccoli, applesauce, and milk. Yes, the hungry kids ate the carrots. But that wasn’t the interesting part of this study. The researchers ran this test once a week over four weeks. In

three of the meals, the kids got an appetizer of carrots—about a ¼ cup portion, about a half-cup portion, and about a ¾-cup portion. For the fourth meal, they weren’t served any carrots. The researchers found that when served carrots before the meal, the kids ate more vegetables with the meal. And the amount increased when the carrot portion was doubled. But the effect plateaued—tripling the amount of carrots didn’t lead to even more consumption. They concluded that serving vegetables before the meal would increase the overall amount of vegetables that children would consume—those pre-meal vegetables count, too. So, am I going to tell my kids about this? No way. But I might just start putting out a plate of various raw vegetables (such as sliced red and green peppers, cucumbers, and yes, indeed, carrots) while I’m making dinner. If they come bounding ravenously into the kitchen to start scrounging for a snack, maybe I can nudge them toward

a little something of the vegetable persuasion. Heck, I might even be ambitious enough to dress it up a little. Who knows, maybe a nice plate and a little low fat dip might get them into the mood for more plant matter during dinner. Now that’s an appetizer that seems worth it. —Erin Gudeux, senior project leader, sensory department Related: • How clean is that bagged salad?• Food choking safety and children Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences

Suns Get Gritty, Feisty in Game 3 Win Sam Amick (FanHouse Main) Submitted at 5/24/2010 2:30:00 AM

Filed under: Lakers, Suns, NBA Playoffs PHOENIX -- The eye was still black and blue, with subtle shades remaining from the Tim Duncan elbow Steve Nash had endured nearly two weeks before. The nose was the newest problem, as the head of Lakers guard Derek Fisher nailed the Phoenix point guard with just 19 seconds remaining in Game 3 Sunday night and a quick adjustment was called for. With the team doctor convinced it was broken, Nash "readjusted the cartilage" on the spot and proceeded to bury two late free throws that were icing on the cake that was Phoenix's 118-109 win. And as Nash later walked toward his postgame press

conference at US Airways Center, his Nile River-looking snout leading his way through the tunnel, it was the satisfied smile that still stood out amid the wreckage of flesh and bone. He was, in other words, the Suns' perfect poster boy for both the evening and the series.

Ailing Bynum Can't Keep Up With Suns Chris Tomasson (FanHouse Main) Submitted at 5/24/2010 2:31:00 AM

Filed under: Lakers, Suns, NBA Injuries, NBA Playoffs PHOENIX -- Andrew Bynum's great size mostly has been

looked at as an asset. Now, some are seeing it as an anchor dragging down the Lakers. While the Lakers' 7-foot, 285pound starting center won't admit the small cartilage tear in his right knee is the primary coach Phil Jackson is being a lot reason for his recent poor play, more candid. Or at least as

candid as Jackson can be without having some side motive. After the Lakers fell 118-109 to Phoenix on Sunday night at US Airways to have their Western Conference finals lead cut to 21, Jackson went so far as to say

Bynum could miss an upcoming game to provide some rest for his ailing knee.

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Stoudemire takes over as Suns cut Lakers' lead Associated Press (ESPN.com) Submitted at 5/24/2010 12:49:16 AM

PHOENIX -- Amare Stoudemire had been criticized for just about everything: his defense, his rebounding, even his desire. The Phoenix forward listened calmly all week, then responded with a monster game. Stoudemire attacked the Los Angeles Lakers relentlessly, matching his career playoff high with 42 points and grabbing 11 rebounds to power the Suns to a 118-109 victory Sunday night. The win sliced the Lakers' lead in the Western Conference finals to 2-1. Adande: Gentry's Zone Delivers After two games where the Suns' defense seemed nonexistent, it was time to break out the zone, writes J.A. Adande. Story • Daily Dime • McMenamin: Lack of execution for L.A. • Markazi: Dose of reality for L.A. • Shelburne: Lopez surprising Suns All that talk about a LakersBoston final has been put on hold. The Suns can pull even in the series with a victory at home in Game 4 on Tuesday night. Stoudemire, with a bandage over a cut he received when his goggles slammed into his

forehead on a drive to the basket, said he has worked through serious knee and eye injuries and kept his career at an All-Star level. "You can never question my determination," he said, "my focus, my dedication. That's one of the reasons I've persevered through injuries and continue to try to improve every summer. My dedication to the game is at an all-time high." Phoenix, dominated inside in the first two games, won with its big men, and a big advantage at the free throw line. Answering Challenge Amare Stoudemire scored 42 points and grabbed 11 rebounds after scoring 41 points combined in his previous two games. It's the most points for Stoudemire in the postseason since scoring 42 points on June 1, 2005. 40 points, 10 rebounds in playoff win vs. Lakers Robin Lopez, whose 7-foot presence gave the Suns some much-needed toughness inside, scored 20 on 8-of-10 shooting in 31 minutes, by far his most playing time since returning from a back injury at the start of the series. Phoenix made 37-of42 free throws, 14 of 18 by Stoudemire. The Lakers were 16 of 20 at the line. Kobe Bryant had 36 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds. Pau Gasol scored 23 points, but the Lakers didn't get as much help from their supporting cast as

they did in the first two games. The Suns, the second-best 3point shooting team in NBA history in the regular season, were just 5 of 20. But Jason Richardson was 4 of 7, including one with 26 seconds to go to put the lid on the triumph, snapping the Lakers' eight-game playoff winning streak. "We certainly didn't come out to play the way I wanted," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said, "and we certainly didn't play the way I wanted at the end." Richardson scored 19. Steve Nash had 17 points and 15 assists before banging his nose in a fourth-quarter collision with Derek Fisher. Nash said he didn't think it was broken but planned to see a specialist before practice on Monday. Zone Powers Suns After giving up 32 points in the first quarter, the Suns switched to a 2-3 zone defense. Phoenix rallied for a seven-point halftime lead by holding the Lakers to 1-of-6 shooting and forcing four turnovers in the second quarter. Lakers halfcourt offense "They attacked the hoop today," Jackson said, "and, you know, earned 42 foul shots. That's really the game plan. We seemed to be staying home on the 3-point shooters, and Stoudemire and Lopez had a night for them." Stoudemire, who had just nine

rebounds in the first two games and had been criticized for his lack of defense and absence of fire, scored repeatedly on drives to the basket, when he either made the basket, was fouled, or both. The All-Star power forward, who can opt out of the final year of his contract after this season, made 10-of-12 shots in the second half, scoring 16 in the third quarter and 13 in the fourth. Phoenix coach Alvin Gentry said he knew Stoudemire would respond. "He knew he didn't play well in L.A.," Gentry said. Stoudemire had said Lamar Odom had "a lucky game" with 19 points and 19 rebounds in Game 1. Odom was far more complimentary after Game 3. "He had a wonderful game," Odom said. "He got to the hole and was forceful. He played great." Odom, meanwhile, made just 4of-14 shots and had 10 points and six rebounds before fouling out. He and Andrew Bynum, bothered by his sore right knee, both got in early foul trouble. "It was one of those games," Odom said. "It happens." Jackson said Bynum might not play in Game 4. "I'll talk to him and see how he feels about it," Jackson said. "I think he was ineffective. There were some things that got by him." As for Lopez, Gentry called the

second-year pro's offense "a big surprise." Lopez had been out since March 28 with a bulging disk before playing in this series. The Suns played a lot of zone defense after the Lakers averaged 126 points and shot 58 percent in the first two games. Los Angeles shot 48 percent in this one. The Lakers had a 27-4 advantage in second-chance points, but were outscored 18-3 on fast-break points. "When they started making shots, we had to go to the zone," Gentry said. "Tonight it worked and we stuck with it." Los Angeles, though, led 90-89 when Odom made two free throws with 8:47 to play. Lopez entered the game for the struggling Channing Frye, and Phoenix took the lead for good 91-90 on Jared Dudley's baseline drive with 8:27 left. Frye missed all seven of his shots, five of them 3s, and is shooting 1 for 20 in the series, 1 for 14 on 3s. He has missed 17 straight shots. Phoenix scored the last seven points of the second quarter to lead 54-47 at the half and was up 86-84 after three quarters, thanks to two free throws by Leandro Barbosa with 1.5 seconds left following an illadvised foul at midcourt by Shannon Brown. Game notes STOUDEMIRE page 63

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"He told me before the third period he was going to be the guy to go get it. True to his Submitted at 5/23/2010 10:43:12 PM word, he got it." Blackhawks sweep Sharks to Chicago will play either punch ticket for Stanley Cup Montreal or Philadelphia and be finals in search of its first NHL title CHICAGO -- Dustin Byfuglien since 1961, more than two has emerged as a force for the decades before many of the Chicago Blackhawks and now current players were born. he is taking his game to the "It's an honor to be going to the highest level. He and his Stanley Cup. We beat a very teammates are headed to the good team over there. It wasn't Stanley Cup finals. easy," Byfuglien said. Byfuglien scored his third go- The 257-pound Byfuglien was ahead goal of the Western parked in front of the net with 7 Conference finals, converting on seconds left on the power play. a third-period power play as He took a nice pass from Patrick Chicago rallied to beat the San Kane and knocked the puck past Jose Sharks 4-2 on Sunday and Evgeni Nabokov to give the complete a four-game sweep Blackhawks a 3-2 lead at 14:05 that sent the Blackhawks to the of the final period. NHL finals for the first time "I got my stick open in front of since 1992. the net, and Kaner game me a More From ESPN.com nice little feed," Byfuglien said. Are the Hawks destined or "too Moving Byfuglien to the top stupid to know better"? Either line with Kane and captain way, they're off to the Cup Jonathan Toews was one of finals for the first time since coach Joel Quenneville's best 1992 and they're ready, writes adjustments. Pierre LeBrun. Story Kris Versteeg added an emptyâ&#x20AC;˘ LeBrun: Sharks' future unclear net goal with 42 seconds left, Duncan Keith returned to the and the red-clad fans at the ice after losing seven teeth, United Center erupted, littering proving these Hawks mean the ice with souvenir towels. business, w r i t e s Byfuglien also had the gameE S P N C h i c a g o . c o m ' s J o n winner Friday night in overtime Greenberg. Story as Chicago captured Game 3, 3â&#x20AC;˘ Check out the Hawks blog 2. He also put the Blackhawks " S e e m s l i k e h e l i k e s t h e ahead to stay with a goal in their spotlight. He likes being the 2-1 victory in the opener and hero. He steps up in big time," scored a goal in all four of the teammate Patrick Sharp said. Blackhawks' victories over the

Sharks. He has eight goals in this postseason. Job Not Done It's been a long time since the Chicago Blackhawks hoisted the Stanley Cup. "When you're playing with those two kids, the pucks are going to find you when you're not expecting it," Byfuglien said of being matched with Kane and Toews. It was another disappointing ending for the Sharks, who won the conference in the regular season by a point over the Blackhawks. They outshot Chicago in three of the four games but couldn't break through, scoring only seven goals in the series. "There's a level of frustration about the way we approached this whole series," San Joe defenseman Rob Blake said. "We put ourselves in a position to be successful throughout the season and we didn't accomplish what we needed to." Logan Couture scored in the first period and Patrick Marleau had a short-handed goal in the second as San Jose built 2-0 lead. But Brent Seabrook was credited with a goal after a video replay reversed an initial on-ice ruling of no goal. Dave Bolland tied the game at 2-2 at 18:38 of the second. The Sharks had a chance to regain the lead a minute into the final period, but a shot from the

high slot by Devin Setoguchi deflected off the stick of teammate Joe Thornton and hit the crossbar. "I'm not going to criticize the effort," San Jose defenseman Dan Boyle said, pointing to the strong play of Chicago goalie Antti Niemi. "A combination of them playing well defensively, him playing well. The blame was on us, too. We didn't find a way to get it through and I'm not really sure why that is." On his tying goal, Bolland scrapped for the puck behind the net and gained control. After hesitating, he fired a wraparound shot that appeared to deflect off the stick of San Jose's Kent Huskins before it went past Nabokov. It was the fifth goal of the playoffs and second in two games for Bolland, whose defense was a key throughout the series for Chicago. Marleau scored the shorthanded goal from the right circle at 7:35 of the second, shortly after the Sharks started a break when Marc-Edouard Vlasic blocked a shot by Kane. That put the Sharks in position to take control, but they couldn't maintain it. Big Man, Big Goals Chicago's Dustin Byfuglien became synonymous with the big goal in the conference finals. After Toews was called for cross-checking during a scramble at the net, leaving each

team a man down, Seabrook took the puck toward the goal. As Marian Hossa battled to get control at the side, the puck slipped between Nabokov's legs. Seabrook's goal sliced San Jose's lead to 2-1 and sent the crowd into a frenzy. Sharks coach Todd McLellan referred to the score as "a bit of a disputed goal." "There's a rule that is in the league right now that if the referee has the intent to blow the whistle, it's dead," McLellan said. "The problem with the rule, like a lot of 'em, is there's a lot of gray left in there. Nobody knows what the referee's thinking." Couture converted a high rebound past Niemi after a shot by Setoguchi from the left boards was deflected, putting the Sharks up 1-0 at 11:08 of the first. Niemi made 16 saves for Chicago. Nabokov finished with 23. "They seem very destined right now," McLellan said of the Blackhawks. "They have a goaltender that's on fire. They're getting scoring not necessarily from their superstars, I mean that with all due respect to the Byfugliens, the Bollands, those type of players. "They're doing the things they need to do to win." Game notes BLACKHAWKS page 63

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want his input into their next coaching hire, assuming the two -time MVP is still considering re Submitted at 5/24/2010 8:53:54 AM -signing with Cleveland when C L E V E L A N D - - T h e free agency opens after Cleveland Cavaliers have fired midnight on July 1. The Cavs M i k e B r o w n , t h e t e a m will have to search for a new announced Monday morning. coach not knowing if James will The Cavaliers had a midnight be back and would have to go deadline Sunday night to fire the into the draft and free agency head coach or pay him his full without a coach. $4.5 million salary for next James is eligible to opt out of season. his contract this summer, a Cleveland was ousted from the move that would make the twoplayoffs two weeks ago by the time MVP -- and zero-time Boston Celtics, who upset the NBA champion -- a free agent NBA's top regular-season team and set off a scramble for his in six games in the Eastern services from New York to Conference semifinals. Miami to Los Angeles and, of Cavs owner Dan Gilbert made course, back in Cleveland. the decision to fire Brown after Cleveland, which had the best an organizational review that record in the NBA the past two began following the Cavs' exit seasons, had a 2-1 series lead from the playoffs. over the Celtics before losing ESPN The Magazine's Ric three straight, including the final Bucher first reported Brown's two at home by a combined 50 firing. points. Best Of The Bunch "After a long and deep analysis Coach Mike Brown leaves the of all of the factors that led to Cavaliers with the highest the disappointing early ends to winning percentage in team our playoff runs over the past history. And his five playoff two seasons, we concluded that appearances are matched only it was time for the Cavaliers to by Lenny Wilkens in franchise move in a different direction," history. Highest Win Pct, Gilbert said Monday in a Cavaliers History statement released by the team. Cleveland's next move will be " T h e e x p e c t a t i o n s o f t h i s an interesting one. Because of organization are very high and, LeBron James' uncertain future, although change always carries it's possible the Cavs would an element of risk, there are

times when that risk must be taken in an attempt to break through to new, higher levels of accomplishment. "This is one of those times." Brown, who had one year left on his contract, could be quickly scooped up by one of the five other teams looking for head coaches. Brown guided the team to the postseason in each of his five seasons but failed to win an NBA championship. Cleveland's assistants also have one year remaining on their deals. Brown was the league's coach of the year last season when the Cavs won 66 games. Cleveland lost to Orlando in the conference finals, however, and it was assumed Brown would have to get the team closer to a championship to keep his job. Instead, the Cavs regressed. They were badly outplayed by the Celtics, who won the last two games played in Cleveland by a combined 50 points. "I have truly enjoyed working with Mike Brown," Cavaliers general manager Danny Ferry said on Monday. "Mike has played a huge role in turning around the Cavs organization. Over the past five years, Mike established a work ethic, defensive identity and culture of winning that was not here previously." It wasn't all his fault, but the 40

-year-old Brown, hired by Gilbert to change Cleveland's culture with a foundation based on defense, couldn't deliver a title this season despite having the game's most skilled player and a roster upgraded with the additions of All-Stars Shaquille O'Neal and Antawn Jamison. LeBron Tracker Where will LeBron James land? We're keeping tabs on the King. Here's the latest. LeBron Tracker The Cavs' defense, suffocating and relentless at times during the regular season, was atrocious in the series against Boston. Cleveland allowed more than 100 points in six games and couldn't contain Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo. When Brown and his staff finally figured out a way to contain Rondo, the Cavs had no answer for Kevin Garnett, who dominated Jamison. Brown was outcoached by Boston's Doc Rivers, who had his team better prepared and got more from his players. The Cavs were constantly beaten to loose balls and long rebounds, something Brown couldn't help but perhaps a sign that he had already lost his team. Brown's rotations were a mess in the series, leading to the team's inability to get into any

type of offensive rhythm. With James unable to dominate as he so often does, the Cavs' offense was stagnant and players didn't seem to have any sense of their roles. It was constant scrambling. There were whispers Brown was in trouble after the Cavs were dumped by Orlando in last year's Eastern Conference finals. It was thought that Brown would have to take his team at least as far this season to save his job, but he couldn't and paid the price. During his tenure, Brown rarely -- if ever -- criticized James. The opposite wasn't true. In past seasons, James complained about the team's lack of offensive imagination, saying the Cavs should run more. He and Brown worked through most differences and seemed to have a solid relationship, but it began to fade as this brief postseason unfolded. Because of a injury to O'Neal, Brown was forced to integrate the center back into the offense during the playoffs, and the Cavs never got into a flow. Also, James and some of the team's other veterans questioned Brown's game plans in both the series against Chicago and CLEVELAND page 62

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Boston. James publicly questioned why O'Neal only played 49 seconds in the fourth quarter of the ESPN.com news services Although Federer won at Monday after being suspended it." (ESPN.com) Roland Garros a year ago to overnight because of darkness. On match point, Federer leaned Game 4 loss in Boston. In the complete a career Grand Slam, With temperatures in the mid- into a backhand and pulled it at opening round against the Bulls, Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:00:54 AM the role of favorite again goes to 80s on a second successive an improbable angle for one last James campaigned to get J.J. PARIS -- Roger Federer lost an four-time champion Rafael cloudless day in Paris, Federer winner, prompting a final Hickson more playing time, argument. His tennis was more Nadal. They could meet in the lost his cool for only a moment. "Ahhhhh" from the crowd. creating an awkward stand-off persuasive. final. Speaking to the chair umpire in Djokovic took the first set in b e t w e e n t h e c o a c h a n d Miffed by a line call in his first "I hope I'll be playing the French and wagging his index just 27 minutes without facing a s u p e r s t a r . Adding to the drama in m a t c h a s F r e n c h O p e n finals," Federer said. "If it's him, finger, he disputed a line call on single break point but lost his Cleveland's final home game defending champion, Federer it's perfect." a Luczak serve and then waved serve twice in the second. quickly regrouped to win the No. 3-seeded Novak Djokovic, his arms in disgust as he walked Djokovic won 85 percent of the was the sight of Kentucky coach opening set two points later and a two-time semifinalist, beat back to the baseline. points played on his first serve John Calipari, a friend of James, then went on to beat Peter Evgeny Korolev 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, 6 "He got a bit of a rough call in the third set and broke sitting in a courtside seat -- next to James' agent -- adjacent to L u c z a k 6 - 4 , 6 - 1 , 6 - 2 o n -3. Americans Taylor Dent and against him, actually," Luczak Korolev twice. Monday. John Isner also advanced. said. T h e f o r m e r A u s t r a l i a n Cleveland's bench. Information from The Complete results The unseeded Dent won a A double-fault by Luczak champion then took Korolev's Need the scores from any match at Roland Garros for the moments later ended the first serve to get the first game of the Associated Press was used in match played in today's French first time in his 12-year career, set, and the match then became fourth and broke again to close this report. Five Filters featured article: Open? Results beating Nicolas Lapentti 6-3, 6- a clinic, with a relaxed Federer out the match. The Art of Looking Prime T h e t o p - r a n k e d F e d e r e r 4, 7-6 (3). putting his vast repertoire of Isner, seeded 17th, lost only 10 committed only 11 unforced "Better late than never, right?" shots to full use. points on his serve, never faced Ministerial - The 2010 UK errors, lost just 14 of 64 points Dent said. "There's nothing On one point he started behind a break point and beat Andrey General Election. Available on his serve and faced only one more that Americans love than the baseline, sprinted to chase Golubev 6-4, 6-3, 6-2. No. 15 tools: PDF Newspaper, Full break point. to come over here and win down a drop shot near the net Tomas Berdych and No. 20 Text RSS, Term Extraction. "It's always important coming matches. We always have that post, slid into his forehand and Stanislas Wawrinka also won, back as defending champion l a b e l , l i k e , ' O h , y o u ' r e flicked it from ankle level cross- but No. 27 Feliciano Lopez lost trying to get off to a good start," American. First round, see you court for a winner. He ended a to Julian Reister 6-1, 7-6 (5), 6he said. "It was like a perfect later.' So I think we get a lot of l o n g r a l l y w i t h a s l i c e d 2. match to get off the French pride from winning matches backhand that carried so much Information from The Open campaign, really." here." spin it bounced back toward the Associated Press was used in This is only the second time in Another American, Michael net for another winner, and he this report. nine years that Federer arrived Yani, lost a match that equaled raised a finger to acknowledge Five Filters featured article: in Paris without a title during the longest at the tournament the cheers. The Art of Looking Prime the clay season. But the 16-time s i n c e t h e t i e b r e a k w a s "If it was anyone else, I'd be Ministerial - The 2010 UK Grand Slam champion showed introduced in 1973. Lukas getting pretty angry," Luczak General Election. Available no signs of vulnerability against Lacko beat Yani 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7- said. "He just had me on a string tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Luczak, an Australian who fell 6 (4), 6-7 (5), 12-10. and just was toying with me at Text RSS, Term Extraction. to 0-4 in French Open matches. The match resumed at 8-all the end. I think he was enjoying

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Filed under: Cavaliers, NBA Coaches The end of Mike Brown's Cleveland coaching career was a slow death, but it is over nonetheless. Brown's agent, Warren LeGarie, confirmed to FanHouse that Brown has been fired after five seasons. The news was first reported by ESPN's Ric Bucher. The Cavaliers' ownership and front office reportedly had a significant financial interest in deciding Brown's fate by midnight Sunday, as his contract had a clause in which all of his $4.5 million salary for next season would become guaranteed at that time. Yet because he was fired before the deadline, Brown will earn just half of the salary. An SI.com report that Cleveland owner Dan Gilbert had made up his mind to fire Brown came not long after the Cavs fell in six games to Boston. Gilbert denied the report at the team's postmortem media session on May 14, but ultimately decided on making

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Jackson drew what he said was his first technical of the year in the second quarter, when the Suns were 13 of 15 at the line and his team hadn't even shot a free throw. ... The Lakers scored 65 and 62 points in the first halves of Game 1 and Game 2, 47 in Game 3 and only 15 in the second quarter. ... The Suns' bench continued to struggle offensively. The reserves made just 3-of-21 shots and scored 15 points, but the Los Angeles reserves weren't much better,

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Couture's opening goal was the first for the Sharks by someone other than Marleau since Jason Brown the fall guy for a season Interested in Cavs' Job? Demers scored in Game 1. in which Cleveland fell short Share The Cavs now become Marleau's goal was his fifth of once again despite having the t h e s i x t h t e a m t o h a v e a the series and eighth of the best record in the regular season coaching opening, joining New postseason. The Sharks had (61-21) for the second straight Orleans, the Clippers, Chicago, seven goals total in the series. ... year. Brown compiled a 272- New Jersey, and Atlanta. They Chicago D Duncan Keith lost 138 record in five seasons will also move forward with the several teeth when he was hit in leading the Cavaliers, leading hopes that soon-to-be free agent the face during the rush that led the team to the playoffs in each LeBron James still approves of to Marleau's goal. But he of those seasons. He also took the direction in which they're returned to the game minutes the Cavs to the Finals in 2007, going. Whether firing Brown later. ... Chicago's Andrew Ladd when they fell to San Antonio in brings them one step closer to played 2 minutes, 14 seconds in four games. James re-signing in his home Also See: Obama's Advice to state, however, remains to be LeBron| SI: Lenny Wilkins seen.

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Filed under: Lakers, Suns, NBA Playoffs PHOENIX -- Amar'e Stoudemire wears No. 1, and Sunday night he was looking like the guy who was the first star in Phoenix Suns history. Stoudemire was swooping to the hoop like Connie Hawkins did 40 years ago. He had a baseline drive for a reverse layup and enough dipsy-doo moves that it appeared he, rather than Suns center Robin Lopez, should have been wearing a Julius Erving-like Afro. Put it all together, and the forward scored a playoff careerhigh tying 42 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as his Suns beat the Lakers 118-109 at US Airways Center to cut the deficit in the Western Conference finals to 2-1. "A lot of practice,'' Stoudemire said of the moves he displayed. "But I think just trying to keep those guys off guard, just really trying to bring out a lot of

The Best of Big Download: May 17 - 23 John Callaham (Joystiq)

action game. • Steam on the Mac: We give our first impressions of Valve's Filed under: Mac, PC, Meta launch of the Mac Steam client. (about Joystiq) So after a three • Boot Disk: Our retro games year absence, Microsoft has feature checks out the RTS finally decided to publish a PC game Age of Empires 2. game ( Fable III) to retail stores. • All You Need To Know: We At least we won't have to wait a g i v e y o u t h e 4 1 1 o n t h e year or three for the Fable III PC upcoming PC version of Prince port to arrive. Is this the dawn of of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. a new era for Microsoft and the • Freeware Friday: Our free PC PC game industry? We shall game column checks out the 8see. bit like platform game forward Lamar Odom grabbed Exclusive features Streemerz. • Tactical Intervention 19 rebounds in Game 1. S o , L a m a r , h o w w a s I n t e r v i e w : W e c h a t w i t h Continue reading The Best of S t o u d e m i r e ' s p e r f o r m a n c e Counter-Strike's co-creator Big Download: May 17 - 23 Minh Le about his upcoming The Best of Big Download: Sunday? "He had a wonderful game,'' multiplayer shooter. May 17 - 23 originally appeared said Odom, not wanting to • Reviews: We give our final on Joystiq on Mon, 24 May elaborate much. Then, after verdicts for The Settlers 7 and 2010 00:30:00 EST. Please see some prodding, he added, "He also for Alienware's M11x our terms for use of feeds. got to the hole and was forceful. gaming laptop. Read| Permalink| Email this| • Mafia II PC preview: We go Comments He was great.'' hands-on with the PC port of the long awaited open world crime Submitted at 5/24/2010 12:30:00 AM

different moves, because they scout you so well and they know what you do best. So, if you can count on your go-to moves, it's hard for them to guard you. ... I wanted to be very, very versatile and try to catch them off guard with a few moves.'' Stoudemire sure did, and nobody on the Lakers claimed anything he did was "lucky.'' It was Stoudemire who uttered that claim after Lakers reserve

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Filed under: Lakers, Suns, NBA Playoffs PHOENIX -- Amar'e Stoudemire was the one who took most of the blame for the Suns' losses in the first two games of the Western Conference finals. With only three rebounds in Game 1 and a modest 18 points in Game 2, Phoenix simply wasn't getting enough out of the player who has been an unstoppable offensive force for them since the All-Star break. That all changed in Game 3. Stoudemire was aggressive from the opening tip, drawing two quick fouls on Andrew Bynum in the game's first three minutes and finishing with an absolutely monster night offensively to lead the Suns to a Game 3 victory. Phoenix narrowed L.A.'s series lead to 2-

1, thanks to 42 points and 11 rebounds from Stoudemire. Kobe Bryant led the Lakers with 36 points, 10 rebounds, and nine assists, and Pau Gasol had 23 points on 11-of-14 shooting. But they got little help from their supporting cast, and guys like Lamar Odom and Shannon Brown who were integral to the team's success in the first two

games were largely non-existent in this one. Hero Of The Day Amar'e Stoudemire set the tone for his team by being aggressive from the start, and kept it going offensively all night long. Stoudemire shot 14 of 22 from the field and 14 of 18 from the free throw line. He really carried his team to the win in Game 3.

BioShock 2 Metro Pack DLC coming to PC tomorrow Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) Submitted at 5/24/2010 10:15:00 AM

The expansive (and somewhat irreverent) "Metro Pack" DLC for the multiplayer portion of BioShock 2 will be available for the PC version of the game tomorrow. The pack includes six new maps, three new Achievements and a "Rebirth" feature which lets level 50 players restart their careers, and will be available on the Games for Windows Live Marketplace for 800($10). Players can also grab two new multiplayer characters for 160($2), and all players can grab the (sigh) golf

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Japanese hardware sales, May 10 May 16: How it Ends edition Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)

We'll start things off: Holy crap! We can't believe they were all dead the whole time. Only, Right when this post goes live were they really dead, since the o n o u r s i t e , t h e t r o p i c a l , whole thing took place in Walt's mysterious television series Lost dream? We guess that makes should have just concluded its sense, but we can't get behind six-year run. We realize that for the whole "Hurley is actually an the next few weeks, that's all angel" plot twist. And we're still that fans of the show are going not sure about the whole Angelto want to talk about. To Hurley spin-off series, but we'll preempt the takeover our site by at least give the pilot episode a such discussion, we're turning shot. the comments section of this Note: We actually wrote this post into your own personal post this afternoon, long before soapbox, from which you can the episode aired. Still, we bet at p r o c l a i m h o w least one of these things actually disappointed/delighted you were happened. with the finale. - PSP: 24,475 10,758 (30.53%) Submitted at 5/23/2010 11:30:00 PM

- PS3: 20,463 5,722 (21.85%) - Wii: 17,570 13,829 (44.04%) - DSi LL: 15,879 10,854 (40.60%) - DSi: 9,990 5,749 (36.53%) - Xbox 360: 4,370 92 (2.15%) - DS Lite: 2,695 1,331 (33.06%) - PS2: 1,293 198 (13.28%) - PSP Go: 871 593 (40.51%) [Source: Media Create] Read: The angelic archives Japanese hardware sales, May 10 - May 16: How it Ends edition originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 23 May 2010 23:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

NintendoWare Weekly: Art Style Light Trax, Viral Survival, Metal Torrent JC Fletcher (Joystiq)

hidden object game about historical crime. See all the new Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:45:00 AM downloads after the break. There hasn't been a new Art Gallery: Art Style: light trax Style game on WiiWare since (WiiWare) October 2008-- they've all gone Continue reading to DSiWare since that platform NintendoWare Weekly: Art launched. Today, the series Style Light Trax, Viral Survival, returns to Wii, in much the same Metal Torrent way as it started: with a fancy NintendoWare Weekly: Art u p d a t e t o a G B A B i t Style Light Trax, Viral Survival, G e n e r a t i o n s g a m e . I t ' s Metal Torrent originally accompanied by a compelling, appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 24 odd-looking game from NIS M a y 2 0 1 0 0 9 : 4 5 : 0 0 E S T . America. Please see our terms for use of Meanwhile, DSiWare has feeds. poker, a vertical shmup, a Read| Permalink| Email this| puzzle game about racing, and a Comments

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Knock Out Stress (Mensfitness.com) Submitted at 5/24/2010 3:00:00 AM

8 tension-relieving tips from David Posen, M.D., author of The Little Book of Stress Relief by Nate Millado Print Article Email to Friend 1.) Take a deep breath Try slowing your breathing rate to seven to eight breaths per minute. Inhale to a count of four, then exhale at the same speed. "You'll trigger something called the relaxation response," Posen says. "Your heart rate slows down, your blood pressure goes down, and your muscles relax." 2.) Stretch out Hunched over your computer Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) beta during its 18 days of all day? Get up and walk around availability. Some may see that every 30 minutes. Do some neck Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:03:00 AM as a precursor to Reach's certain and shoulder rolls. Stretch your According to an Associated retail success -- we see it as a arms parallel to the floor, and do P r e s s r e p o r t , B u n g i e h a s testament to Halo players' circles. A minute or two will revealed that Halo: Reach will startling murder efficiency. hit store shelves worldwide on [Via VG247] S e p t e m b e r 1 4 ( w i t h t h e Halo: Reach grabs September exception of Japan, where it will 14 release date originally (Mensfitness.com) launch the following day). appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 24 That's going to be a rough, M a y 2 0 1 0 0 9 : 0 3 : 0 0 E S T . Submitted at 5/24/2010 3:00:00 AM rough way to start your school Please see our terms for use of These products are made up year. feeds. mostly of fat, sugar, or a The report also reveals that Read| Permalink| Email this| combination of both over 2.7 million players logged Comments Print Article Email to Friend more than 16 million hours and 1.) Lattes and cappuccinos 1.1 billion kills in the Reach Postworkout caffeine may be energizing at first, but it won't last all day. Plus, your favorite sweetened mocha adds unnecessary fat and sugar. Instead, opt for green tea

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loosen tight muscles. 3.) Catch more z's When you get the sleep you need, you're not only more energized but also more relaxed. A good rule: one hour of sleep for every two hours your awake. 4.) Watch funny videos Laughter relieves tension and feel-good beta-endorphins. 5.) Lose the java "I call coffee 'stress in a cup,'" Posen says. It's not just coffee—tea, cola, energy drinks, even chocolate can leave you jittery. 6.) Sleep on the job Have a stressful meeting? Calm your nerves by napping for 20 minutes—but not any longer or you're likely to slip into a deep sleep and wake up feeling crummier. (And don't forget to wipe the drool off your desk.) 7.) Vent Talk it out with somebody: a

therapist, girlfriend—even a lifting buddy. "People hold a lot of stuff in," Posen says. "I always say, 'Those who suffer alone suffer a lot." 8.) Be realistic Keep things in perspective. "Sometimes, parts of life are like going to see a movie you were told was the best ever," Posen says. "It may be good, but it wasn't the best ever, and you kind of feel let down." Related articles: Five Energy-Zapping Foods Meditate Stress Away How To Beat Office Stress [on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and more] Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Five Energy-Zapping Foods sweetened with just a touch of honey. 2.) Muffins and other pastries People often think fruit-filled muffins are a much healthier choice than donuts or danishes. But all of those foods contain too many calories, not enough protein, and are often loaded with sugar. 3.) Candy bars, granola bars, and protein bars Sure, you'll find some protein

in these bars, but you'll also find lots of calories. These are never a good choice if sugar or corn syrup is among the top five ingredients. 4.) Pretzels It's no wonder most people make pretzels their number one choice when it comes to the office vending machine. It's easy to be pulled in by the lowFIVE page 68

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fat labeling of these tasty snacks. The down side? They lack adequate protein and contain enough processed white flour to send blood sugar skyrocketing. 5.) Ice cream, hamburgers, etc. How often have you justified eating junk food after lifting weights or completing a grueling run? "Rewarding" yourself with one of these highfat convenience foods after a workout cancels out all the hard

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Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers Exposed by “Evil” App Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!) Submitted at 5/24/2010 9:15:06 AM

Ever blithely submitted your digits to one of those “OMGGGG My Dog Chewed up My cell & i lost all my phone numbers!!!!” groups on Facebook? Well, sorry to say it, but your number is probably floating out there in the allconsuming ether that is the Internet. Evil, a new app designed by Tom Scott, of Tweleted, Stupid Fight and Tweet Trumps fame, aims to prove just that — that users are unwittingly sharing their personal info on the web. The program is pretty simple: Just visit the website, and you’ll be privy to a list of six constantly changing

Facebookers whose numbers are out there for all to see. Scott has censored the last four digits of said users’ digits, because, as he says in the site’s Q&A: “It’s called Evil, not diabolic.” How does the site work? According to the Q&A, “Evil uses the graph API to search for groups about lost phones. It picks them at random, extracts some of the phone numbers, and then [displays] them.” So, basically, it’s not hacking into Facebook or anything like that, merely revealing info that’s already out there. Amidst all the upheaval around Facebook’s privacy issues, this little tool — along with many others that are seeking to help users see what private info they’re making public — is

certainly an eye-opener. It really highlights how frequently we willingly give our personal info to unreliable sources without even being conscious of who has access to it. Scott suggests that if you have ever submitted your info to one of these lost phone number groups — which are often “public” or “visible to everyone” — you should delete your digits now. Scott says the inspiration for the app came after “a friend of

mine found that her number appeared in a Google search, in one of those groups… and then the whole idea appeared, fullyformed, in my head. When something like that happens… I have to build it!” In an e-mail to Mashable, Scott wondered whether he had gone too far this time in creating Evil. What do you think? Is this app harmful or helpful in protecting your privacy? For more social media coverage, follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook Tags: evil, facebook, privacy, twitter

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And now for the rest of the story Mollie (GetReligion) Submitted at 5/24/2010 8:00:24 AM

So the Detroit Free Press has a huge article about the Apostolic Visitation of women religious orders here in the United States. What’s that? Well, a year or two ago, the Vatican’s Congregation for Religious ordered a review of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. That’s the group recently in the news for being involved in the 11th hour endorsement of health care legislation. You never would have learned from the media coverage at the time, but this group is known for having leadership that openly opposes Roman Catholic doctrine on a variety of matters (more on that later). The media instead presented the women religious who signed off on the health care package as unassailable when it came to adhering to church teaching. The reader who sent the story in said he thought the article was fairer than most but that’s because he gave them “bonus points for not using the word ‘inquisition’.” It’s a pretty low bar, isn’t it. I actually think that if you made it through the entire article, it was better than most. But it definitely began with a particular viewpoint: The investigation hits at a time when the Vatican is dealing with escalating criticism of its oversight of priests accused of

sexually abusing children. While church officials have said the study is necessary to account for the shrinking number of American nuns, the

Rev. Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest at Georgetown University’s Woodstock Theological Center, called it a “disastrous PR move by the

Vatican.” “When American Catholics find out (nuns) are being investigated by the Vatican, they scratch their heads and say, ‘What is

this all about?’ ” said Reese, a Catholic commentator. “There has always been at the Vatican a deep suspicion of U.S. nuns because they are educated, outspoken and don’t like to be pushed around.” One by one, several people deeply touched by the work of the Adrian Dominican nuns told a Vatican-sanctioned panel of investigators about the ways the Michigan-based order of Catholic sisters serves people in need and honors God. The shorter version would be “Vatican mean, sisters awesome on every level.” The thing is that church officials have explained why they’re doing the study and I don’t think they even mentioned that the LCRW is facing precipitous declines in membership (particularly when compared to the increases seen by the smaller, more traditional Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious). They explained that the LCRW was facing investigation because of its doctrinal differences with the Holy See. Remember the New York Times/Laurie Goodstein story last year about this visit? Here’s how she put it: Cardinal [William] Levada sent a letter to the Leadership Conference saying an investigation was warranted because it appeared that the organization had done little AND page 71

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Speaking in tongues Mollie (GetReligion) Submitted at 5/23/2010 1:50:10 PM

Today is one of my favorite Christian holidays — Pentecost. My youngest was baptized last year on this feast day and we just got home from a beautiful service at our church. I find it fascinating how little most Christian holidays are mentioned in the press. If it’s not Christmas or Easter, it’s not likely to be covered. There are many reasons for this, one being that it’s really hard to find a fresh angle on a holiday that’s not been commercialized as much as Christmas or Easter. There aren’t any Pentecost Fire Sales going on this time of year. Anyway, that made me all the more delighted to read Tim Townsend’s story earlier this week in the St. Louis PostDispatch. The story is about the Rev. Scott Schmieding, a Lutheran pastor in Missouri. The story begins by explaining that Schmieding had a cancerous tumor on his tongue. He’s told that most or all of it will need to be removed: In that moment, Schmieding was not afraid of death or the physical ordeal that he faced. He knew heaven awaited him if he were to die. But he wondered about his calling if he survived. How could he spread the word

of God if he couldn’t speak? “I was most fearful that I would never again be able to verbally communicate with my family,” Schmieding recalled. Sitting in the examination room about 13 years ago, he asked God to either make him whole or take him to heaven. Ultimately, God would do neither. He loses the tongue and has to retrain himself to speak using a special retainer. So why am I mentioning this on Pentecost?

Because Townsend is a knowledgeable enough religion reporter to understand that this story lent itself to being told on this special festival. Why? On Sunday, Christians around the world celebrate the feast of Pentecost, the official end of the Easter season commemorating a dramatic scene in Scripture when the Holy Spirit empowers Jesus’ disciples to begin spreading the Gospel: “Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue

church body like the one Schmieding — and I — are a part of. He speaks with a nice variety of sources and ends with this kicker: He consistently relies on one of his favorite verses, from Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians, which has a particular relevance to his own life. In the verse, Paul recounts God’s words to him: “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” Schmieding believes strongly that he’s been able to reach more people without a tongue than he would have had he not had cancer. “The history of the Bible is the story of God using imperfect people for his perfect purposes,” he said. “I’m just one in a very long line of imperfect people being used by God.” rested on each of them. All of You can always tell the them were filled with the Holy difference between a reporter Spirit and began to speak in who feels comfortable with other languages, as the Spirit permitting his sources to speak gave them ability.” natural religious language and The story isn’t about Pentecost. one for whom such language is, The bulk of it deals with well, foreign. Another Pentecost Schmieding coming to terms lesson, perhaps. with his new condition and how Five Filters featured article: h i s p r e v i o u s a n d c u r r e n t The Art of Looking Prime congregations came to terms Ministerial - The 2010 UK with it as well. But I love that General Election. Available Townsend told this story using a tools: PDF Newspaper, Full P e n t e c o s t h o o k . I t w o r k s Text RSS, Term Extraction. particularly well for a liturgical

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since it was warned eight years ago that it had failed to “promote” the church’s teachings on three issues: the male-only priesthood, homosexuality and the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church as the means to salvation. Two of those three things are given the briefest mention possible a few paragraphs later. But, of course, these things are part of a fascinating story — one that must be included to give more balance to the piece. There’s no mention of specific practices that the Vatican has asked the nuns to stop (such as Reiki) or general trends toward radical feminism. Or who can forget the 2007 LCRW speech given by Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Laurie Brink praising the many nuns who have moved “ beyond the church, even beyond Jesus” and into an interfaith approach to their work and theology.

That simply has to be mentioned in order to give an appropriate understanding of the array of doctrinal issues at stake. Yes, the Vatican considers its doctrines on the priesthood and homosexuality to be important. But to not include the battles over the essential, creedal issues of ancient Christianity — such as the uniqueness of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ — is irresponsible. And the mention of female priests and homosexuality — to the exclusion of the other issues — also makes the story more about politics than about doctrine. For example: The Vatican’s inquiry plays into the debate about women’s roles in many denominations and illustrates the conservativeliberal polarization that permeates American politics. “This visit is part of the longerterm tensions between the liberals and the conservatives in

the Catholic Church, and also is part of the tensions between the Vatican and the American Catholic Church,” said Professor John Green, director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron and a scholar on religion’s impact in America. “I expect this visitation will create more negative reactions from those on the liberal side and more positive reactions from those on the conservative side.” Of course, Green isn’t talking about politics — American or otherwise. The reader who submitted the story pointed out how the words “liberal” and “progressive” (another word used in the story) mean different things in politics than in religious discussions. A political liberal could be a religious traditionalist, for instance. But this story conflates some political orientations with religious orientations. It’s

important to clarify which sphere is being discussed. Now, the story also includes some absolutely wonderful perspective from the sisters being investigated. Many of them — and many of their defenders — speak candidly about the process and how it makes them feel. That is truly a mark in the story’s favor. But we also need the rest of the story — and the voices from the other side to help personalize the Vatican perspective. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Constant Contact Acquires NutshellMail to Move into Social Media Marketing Adam Ostrow (Mashable!) Submitted at 5/24/2010 8:45:38 AM

Email marketing giant Constant Contact has acquired NutshellMail, a service that lets businesses track and post updates to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn via email. The deal moves Constant Contact – which went public CONSTANT page 72

Steve Jobs to Open Apple’s Developer Conference on June 7 Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) Submitted at 5/24/2010 8:24:38 AM

It’s official: Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference will start on Monday, June 7 at 10:00 a.m with a keynote address by Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs. Although Apple has lately leaked far more information

than usual, most notoriously with the double leak of the next iPhone prototype and an iPod Touch with a camera, the anticipation levels for this year’s WWDC are as big as ever. Besides the next iPhone, big sales figures for the iPad and some jabs at Android, we can probably expect a surprise or two. When asked by a

concerned fan whether Apple has some good announcements

prepared for the WWDC, Steve Jobs promised him he “won’t be disappointed.” That’s all we ask, really. The conference runs from June 7 to June 11, providing advanced content for developers across five key technology tracks: Application Frameworks, Internet & Web, Graphics & Media, Developer Tools and

Core OS. Apple engineers will deliver more than 100 solutionsoriented technical sessions and labs to developers in attendance. For more Apple coverage, follow Mashable Apple on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook Tags: apple, wwdc

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Twitter’s Most Influential Users [INFOGRAPHIC] Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) Submitted at 5/24/2010 3:26:03 AM

On March 21, 2006, Twitter’s founders published their first tweets. If you look at that moment as a big bang of influence in the ever-expanding Twittersphere, how does Twitter’s cosmos look today? Web design studio Information Architects aims to answer that with an enormous visualization of the Cosmic 140, or the 140

most influential users on Twitter. The map may look a bit chaotic at first, but it’s not. The founders of Twitter are at the very center of the “galaxy”; longtime Twitter users are closer to the middle, and the two circles for each user (the white one and the transparent one) represent list volume and the number of followers respectively. Users are organized around the circle

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back in 2007 — into the world of social media marketing. The company has 350,000 business customers for its email marketing service, so the idea is to now become their provider of social media tools as well. In a statement, Constant Contact’s CEO Gail Goodman said, “Small businesses clearly have the interest and desire to make the most of social media marketing. We want to make sure we provide the tools and the know-how for them to easily add social media to their marketing efforts.” Back in March, Constant Contact competitor ExactTarget acquired CoTweet, a CRM tool for social media. It’s becoming

clear now that both companies see social media as their next growth area, and we’d expect other players in the space to either launch their own products or do similar deals in the months to come. Below, Goodman talks about today’s acquisition with the NutshellMail team: For more business coverage, follow Mashable Business on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook Tags: constant contact, email marketing, NutShellMail, social media, social media marketing

according to category (indicated can see the first tweet of each on the outer rim of the sphere), user on the map. such as sports, politics, humor As hard as it is to determine the and so forth. Additionally, you exact level of influence of

individual Twitter users, the visualization is an amazing sight to behold. It’s huge, complex and beautiful. See the entire version, available as a free PDF here. For more social media coverage, follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook Tags: infographic, social media, twitter

Hulu Gets Tricked Into Running On Android 2.2 Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)

Hulu on your Android device. This trick has been tested on Google’s Nexus One phone. Android 2.2 supports Flash, but Unfortunately, it comes with if you hoped to watch Hulu on certain drawbacks; you get the your brand new Android device, desktop edition of Hulu instead you’re out of luck since Hulu of the version optimized for doesn’t have arrangements with mobile devices; furthermore, it the content producers to stream will likely get blocked by Hulu on mobile phones. very soon. However, there’s a nifty trick to follows: Open the web browser For more mobile coverage, make Hulu run on your Android on your Android device, type follow Mashable Mobile on 2.2 device; all you need to do is “about:debug” into the address Twitter or become a fan on make Hulu think it’s running on bar and press Go. Go to settings, Facebook scroll to the bottom and select Tags: android, Flash, hulu, a desktop browser. According to Absolutely “UAString”; then change the video Android, the procedure is as setting to “Desktop,” and enjoy Submitted at 5/24/2010 7:46:47 AM